New York: 1951Seven Poems by Charles Reznikoff I "THE lamps are burning in the synagogue, I in the houses of study, in dark alleys...." This should be…
From the American Scene: My Life As A “Jewish Child Genius” by Margaret Blocher Anavi MY PARENTS moved around a great deal during my childhood. Every place we lived, my brother and I were sent…
On the Horizon: And Now–Yinglish on Broadway by Sarah C. Schack FOR years they've been comin' 'round The Mountains (Catskill)-those Jewish storytellers, mimics, singers-to entertain the overfed guests with numbers not…
The Study of Man: When Social Scientists View Labor by Will Herberg A RECENT report by the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan indicates that the American people rank labor…
A Walker in the City, by Alfred Kazin by David Daiches ALFRED KAZIN writes about the Brownsville of his childhood and youth, about the "urime Yidn," the poor immigrant Jews and…
Britain’s Prospects Under Churchill:And What Future for Labor and the Welfare State? by George Lichtheim ELECTORAL post-mortems, in this Age of Gallup, tend to be an affair of evaluating not personalities but percentages. In a…
Can There Be Judaism without Revelation?Israel's Relation to the Divine Is Central by Emil L. Fackenheim "NOW Mt. Sinai was altogether on smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended…
Henryk Erlich un Viktor Alter, compiled by Victor Shulman by Lucy S. Dawidowicz SOMETIME in the middle of September 941, an NKVD colonel named Aron Arkady Volkovsky, right-hand man to Lavrenti Beria, visited…
How Deal with Franco?Understanding the Realities of Spain by Commentary Bk THE government of the United States seemingly has decided that, to secure the military defense of Europe against Communism, it…
Israel Faces Its Arab Minority Problem:The Native Within the Gates by Judd L. Teller ISRAEL'S treatment of her Arab residents, today numbering 70,oo000 or more, has been the subject of press and Knesset discussion…
New York: 1951Seven Poems by Charles Reznikoff I "THE lamps are burning in the synagogue, I in the houses of study, in dark alleys...." This should be…
Poem by Saul Touster "And do not call it fixity...."-Burnt Norton SOMEONE has been playing with the spheres And the sky is left open…
Return to Dachau:“Not All the Perfumes of Arabia. . . .” by Alfred Werner ONE bright spring day of 939 two odd-looking men walked down from the Munich Central Station toward one of the…
Seven Professors Look at the Jewish Student:A Symposium by Our Readers IT IS not surprising that 'The Jewish College Student: 951 Model" by Morris Freedman, in the October COMMENTARY, has provoked…
The American Woman as Snow-Queen:Our Self-Contemptuous Acceptance of Europe's Myth by Elizabeth Hardwick THE muddy waves of American selfreproach beat upon the European shores again. Nothing seems to have happened in thirty years.…
The Belief in Progress, by John Baillie by Golo Mann WHEN J. B. Bury published his Idea of Progress just thirty years ago, he noted the "prevalent feeling that a…
The Big Slide:A Story by Albert Halper THE first big snow of winter was falling as my pal Joey Pisano and I came walking from Ashland Avenue…
The Revolt: Story of the Irgun, by Menachem Begin by Herbert Howarth WHATEVER view you hold, or may have held, of terrorism and its place in the Israeli national struggle, you will…
The Second Scroll, by A. M. Klein by Allen Mandelbaum THE present work by A. M. Klein is novel, travel book, personal memoir, history-biography of the Jew as wanderer, confession…
The Watch, by Carlo Levi by Harold Rosenberg EVERY place has its own kind of time. This includes the pace of its people in their work, entertainment, action-the…
