Red Ribbon on a White Horse, by Anzia Yezierska by Robert Langbaum ANzIA YEZImRSXA achieved fame during the 20o's with a novel called Hungry Hearts about Jewish immigrants on New York's Lower…
From the American Scene: The Case of the Iron Mother-in-Law by Louis Zara THE dressmaker's dummy, headless and buxom, with an iron wire-skirt and a tripod foot, stood in a corner near the…
On the Horizon: Alas for Jewish Folk Songs! by Chemjo Vinaver ONCE upon a time the publication of a book was considered an important matter. Among Jews it was the accepted…
The Study of Man: How Children Become Prejudiced by Miriam Reimann A GROUP of seven-year-olds at a progressive school were reporting what A 1 they had done over their Thanksgiving vacation.…
Channel Crossing by Commentary Bk AND just by crossing the short sea To find the answer sitting there Combing out its snakey hair And with…
Has the American Voter Swung Right?The Mid-Term Election in Perspective by Commentary Bk TO THE average citizen of the Republic, the elections of 95o are already embalmed in history and hardly more a…
Israel’s Zealots in Gaberdine:The “Guardians of the City” by Alfred Werner NOT long ago the head of the Biological Institute on Mount Carmel in Israel received letters warning him to remove…
Magnificat by Harold Norse Et esultavit . . . no, Johann Sebastian, not in the weak magnificat we (sickly) weave, a minor banner of…
Party A Story by May Natalie Tabak HERBERT SAND set the last of the breakfast dishes away in the cupboard, hung the towels up to dry, turned…
Pilgrim People, by Anita Libman Lebeson; and A Documentary History of the Jews in the United States, edited by Morris U. Schappe by Oscar Handlin BY COMMON acceptance, Jewish history begins in the United States with the landing of the first handful of Jews in…
Red Ribbon on a White Horse, by Anzia Yezierska by Robert Langbaum ANzIA YEZImRSXA achieved fame during the 20o's with a novel called Hungry Hearts about Jewish immigrants on New York's Lower…
Simone Weil: Prophet Out of Israel:A Saint of the Absurd by Leslie A. Fiedler "CAST aside all beliefs that serve to fill up emptiness or sweeten what is bitter: the belief in immortality; the…
The “Militant” Fight Against Anti-Semitism:Education and Democratic Discussion Is the Better Way by David Riesman IT WAS not so long ago that Jews sought to defend themselves against anti-Semitism by discreet and persuasive apologetics and…
The Bohemian Who Wrote “Hatikvah”: The Career of Naphtali Herz Imber by Gerard H. Wilk FORTY years ago a man collapsed on Forsyth Street on the Lower East Side and subsequently died in Mount Moriah…
The Legacy of Maimonides, by Ben Zion Bokser by Emil L. Fackenheim IF THIS book succeeds, in barely I30 pages, in portraying the religious thought of the great Jewish sage of the…
The New Image of the Common Man, by Carl J. Friedrich by Commentary Bk THE present book consists mainly of a reprint of Professor Friedrich's The New Belief in the Common Man, originally published…
The New Nazis of Germany:The Totalitarians of the Eastern Zone by Norbert Muhlen LET us imagine a German Rip Van Winkle escaping for a day the drumbeat monotone of Nazi boots, and stretching…
The Twenty-fifth Hour, by C. Virgil Gheorghiu by Golo Mann THE TWENTY-FIFTH HouR comes to America heralded by a considerable European fame. This must be a result of the theme…
Will Technology Destroy Civilization?Why the Prophets of Doom Are Wrong by Commentary Bk A COMMON and increasing disillusionment with technology today marks contemporary thinkers of the most divergent tendencies. A classic expression of…
