From the American Scene: The Peanut Machine and the Kramers by Louis Zara Promptly at five minutes to six each evening Papa Kramer pushed open the gate to the yard, came wearily down…
On the Horizon: A Musician Speaks Out by Chemjo Vinaver One of the interesting effects of the creation of the State of Israel has been the sudden and frantic search…
The Study of Man: The Prophets of the New Conservatism by Gertrude Himmelfarb At the close of 1820, a year of rebellion in Spain, Portugal, and Naples, of political assassination in France and…
A Humanist Religion for Modern Men:Judaism as a This-Worldly Way of Life by Israel Knox It is by now hardly news that there is a reviving interest among younger Jewish thinkers and writers in religion,…
American Jews Through Israeli Eyes:A Traveler’s Report on Some Current Attitudes by Arthur Hertzberg “Why don't you stay in Israel? Why didn't more Americans come to fight? Why don't you send us more money?…
British Labor’s Half-Way House:The Socialist Government Faces the Electorate by George Lichtheim In deciding not to hold a general election during 1949, the Labor government has defied the combined pressure of the…
Dickens, Fagin, and Mr. Riah:The Intention of the Novelist by Edgar Johnson Agitation about the film version of Oliver Twist and its release in Berlin has given widespread currency to a belief…
Rudolf Borchardt: Poet of Assimilation:The Extreme Case of an Extreme Tendency by Heinz Politzer The death sentence pronounced (though never carried out) on Rudolf Borchardt by the Nazis (most incompetent of judges) recalls the…
The Jews Under Turkey’s “New Deal”:The Struggle for Democracy is Still Not Won by Hal Lehrman One Sunday morning last October, on a street in Istanbul, which ordinarily dozes through every seventh day, the flag of…
The Ordeal of Arnold Friedman, Painter:Life and Works of an American Jewish Artist by William Schack There is a kind of artist we all know whose last will and scrapbook contains no appreciation of his work…
The Sure Thing, by Merle Miller; The Sea Change, by Nigel Dennis; The Oasis, by Mary McCarthy by Isa Kapp
