1,001 Nights in the Yiddish Theater:From Goldfaden to Thomashefsky by Sarah C. Schack IN THE summer of 1882, the first performance of a Yiddish play in this country -Abraham Goldfaden's Koldunya, sometimes titled…
Cedars of Lebanon: The Angels Bury Moses by Our Readers ETHIOPIA'S "Black Jews," the Falashas, have been an object of speculation and curiosity since the late 8th century, when Europeans…
From the American Scene: The Beginnings of the Family Fortune by Charles Reznikoff BROWNSVILLE is now well within the city of New York. The subway runs through Brownsville; it has at least a…
On the Horizon: “The Dybbuk” as Opera by Chemjo Vinaver THE premiere of David Tamkin's operatic version of The Dybbuk, presented by the New York City Opera Company this past…
The Study of Man: The Human Infant According to Gesell by Isa Kapp A GENIAL anarchist, S. G., whom I came to know suddenly and intimately during I95 o , has reached the…
A Believing Jew: The Selected Writings of Milton Steinberg by Will Herberg MILTON STEINBERG, who died on March 20, 195o, at the age of forty-six, was a man of notable gifts. He…
American Zionists Move Toward Clarity:To Be or Not to Be “Ingathered” by Judd L. Teller THE 23rd World Zionist Congress this past summer should have been a triumphal convocation. Here were the representatives of world…
An Apology A Story by Bernard Malamud EARLY one morning, during a wearying hot spell in the city, a police car that happened to be cruising along…
Ben Gurion Wins and Loses an Election:Once More the Stop-Gap Coalition by Hal Lehrman IT IS well known that not all Frenchmen have waxed mustaches, not all Englishmen wear monocles, and not all Italians…
British Intellectuals in the Welfare State:How the New Climate Affects Science and Culture by Stephen Spender IT IS well to remember that the intellectual life of a country such as Britain is a whole composed of…
Franco: Proud Ruler of a Hungry People:A Report from Spain by Peter Schmid I FOUND it no easy matter to gain admittance to the reception at which the Italian Ambassador was to present…
Is Jewish Humor Dead?The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Joke by Irving Kristol IT IS known that the surest way of killing a joke is to explain it, and humor has, in self-defense,…
Nighthawks by Samuel Yellen THE place is the corner of Empty and Bleak, The time is night's most desolate hour, The scene is Al's…
Noah by Jackson MacLow READING the Hebrew bible (Frightening book of my people) I learned of the See of Knowledge And the shameful brew…
Sherwood Anderson, by Irving Howe by Granville Hicks "THIS book," Mr. Howe tells us, "is partly an outgrowth of an involved and intimate relationship I have had with…
The Impact of America on European Culture by William Phillips OF THE six essays in this book about America's influence on European culture-one by an American professor, one by an…
The Mind of the Mass Murderer:The Nazi Executioners—and Those Who Stood By by L. Poliakov THE author remembers very clearly the time when, some years younger than he is now, he played at hide an…
The New Yorker Twenty-fifth Anniversary Album, 1925-1950 by Milton Klonsky THERE is a cartoon by Carl Rose in this Album which, by self-reflection, reflects the situation of the New Yorker…
The Time Bomb That Exploded in Cicero:Segregated Housing's Inevitable Dividend by Charles Abrams ON THE 18th of September, 1951, a Cook County grand jury, investigating the recent housing riot in Cicero, Illinois, handed…
White Collar, by C. Wright Mills by Everett C. Hughes PROFESSOR MILLS had fun writing this book about the ever-increasing proportion of us who wear suit jackets and neckties at…
