From the American Scene: The Service of the Temple by Grace Goldin Reba Grossinger was one of the wealthiest women in Stillwater Falls.
From the American Scene: The Service of the Temple by Grace Goldin Reba Grossinger was one of the wealthiest women in Stillwater Falls.
On the Horizon: Adam and Eve on Delancey Street by Isaac Rosenfeld It is months now that a crowd, several rows deep, has been gathering at the window of an East Side…
The Study of Man: Philosophy’s Future in Our Scientific Age by John Dewey Few persons today would deny that philosophy has greatly declined in esteem and influence since the time when it was…
A Dialogue of Two Histories:“Jewish Contributions to America” in a New Light by Commentary Bk Apologists of Judaism in recent years, in a frenetic search for identities, have dulled their vision of what is distinctive…
Academic Integrity and Academic Freedom:How to Deal with the Fellow-Travelling Professor by Sidney Hook The current discussion of the question whether members of the Communist party should be permitted to teach in our schools…
American Zionism at an Impasse:A Movement in Search of a Program by Arthur Hertzberg My Grandfather was not a Zionist, and yet my first experience of Zionism was an act of identification with him—and…
From Little Nemo to Li’l Abner:Comic Strips as Present-Day American Folklore by Heinz Politzer On the heels of the Truman election came the publication of Al Capp's Life and Times of the Shmoo.
Gathering Storm in U.S.-Israeli Relations:The Issues Behind the Conflict by Hal Lehrman Inside Israel a visitor needs only to look around to persuade himself that it is academic to discuss taking back…
The Jewish Writer and the English Literary Tradition: A Symposium-Part II by James Grossman The editors of COMMENTARY asked twenty writers to discuss their reactions, as writers and readers, to the continuing presence of…
The Shooting on the Moehlstrasse:Is It Nazi Anti-Semitism All Over Again? by Norbert Muhlen In August the world press excitedly reported that the Moehlstrasse in Munich had been the scene of the “worst anti-Semitic…