From the American Scene: “Hebrew-Christian” Evangelist: Southern Style by Harry L. Golden REVIVAL FIRES ARE BURNING, AND THE LORD IS POURING OUT HIS BLESSINGS ON THOSE WHO ARE READY TO RECEIVE THEM,…
On the Horizon: Ernest Bloch's “Sacred Service” by Kurt List NOW that Ernest Bloch has passed his seventieth birthday, many musicians look back on his career with a sense of…
The Study of Man: American Realities and Sociological Methods: The New American by Joseph Wood Krutch THERE are some of us who tend to bristle irritably when a sociologist uns to discuss character or personginative literature,…
The Study of Man: American Realities and Sociological Methods: New York’s Puerto Ricans by Nathan Glick BETWEEN them, the social scientists and the business market "researchers" have bred a cultural behemoth: the interminable questionnaire. Merely to…
A Billion Dollars for Israel:The Four-Point Plan's Impact on American Jewry by Hal Lehrman BY ROUGH but fairly sound computation, the total of all the funds raised during the past three years for Jewish…
At Merton College, Oxford by Linda Weinberg By Merton's darkening walls I sat, Brushed by the fall of summer's rain, Feeling the eternal Jew, Homunculus, starting in…
Mink on Weekdays, by Felicia Lamport by Isa Kapp "THE very rich are different from us," said F. Scott Fitzgerald, and was right at least in the sense that…
Nine Books on Israel by Milton Himmelfarb THE exact statistical data may not be available, but there is little reason to doubt that, per capita, more books…
No German Rearming Without Atlantic Union:Europe Alone Cannot Assimilate German Power by Richard H.S. Crossman ONE COMMON characteristic of the British and American approach to politics is the illusion that no problem is really insoluble.…
Parade’s End, by Ford Madox Ford by Monroe Engel THE publication of Ford Madox Ford's tetralogy in one volume is a long overdue act of justice. Read together in…
Rosenzweig's “Judaism of Personal Existence”:A Third Way Between Orthodoxy and Modernism by Will Herberg THERE is hardly an aspect of Jewish life and thought that Franz Rosenzweig did not touch with his creativity. But…
Scarsdale’s Battle of the Books:How One Community Dealt with “Subversive Literature” by Robert Shaplen THE community of Scarsdale, which lies approximately forty minutes north of New York City in fashionestchester County, likes to refer…
The Gentleman and the Jew, by Maurice Samuel by David Daiches MR. SAMUEL has written a fascinating and provocative book. In the framework of an autobiographical discussion of his own intellectual…
The Honekker Song A Story by Hamlen Hunt IN Cambridge, Massachusetts, an industrial city of some size (products: soap, books, clean laundry, some machinery), Harvard University is also…
The Transcendentalists, by Perry Miller by Marvin Meyers IS THERE a dominant style of "Man Thinking" in America which organizes thought and character, art and popular taste, prophecy…
The Two Worlds of Delmore Schwartz:Lucifer in Brooklyn by Heinz Politzer AN ALMOST constant division runs through the works of Delmore A I~Schwartz. There is the world of his own experience,…
The Unrespectable Proselyte:The Fortunes of Beckey Wells by Cecil Roth THE curious story of "Beckey" (born Mary) Wells starts in humdrum enough fashion. In the x8th century, the English stage…
The Various Jews of Israel:Six Sketches by A. A. Davidson The Lads from Casablanca TWELVE noon to 3 PM in Israel ... the government offices which opened at nine, and…
