Death of a Genius:The Last Days of Thomas Wolfe by Hans Meyerhoff This happened in Washington, D.C., on September 15, 1948, when I was looking for a room.
From the American Scene: Jewish Editor: Frontier Style by Ben Lappin On Wednesday afternoons, when the stores in the small towns of Ontario are closed down and the businessmen come into…
On the Horizon: Exodus: Adaptation by Sholem Asch by Leslie A. Fiedler On the face of it, the Moses of Sholem Asch seems to fit easily into the category of that hybrid…
The Study of Man: New Light on the Races of Man by Don J. Hager Until a few years ago, a book on race was more likely to deal with politics than biology.
A Warsaw Fighter in Israel:A Visit with Antek by Zelda Popkin Since 1914, when I first went to work on a daily newspaper, I have done innumerable interviews.
Bread and Democracy in Greece:A Case Study in Marshall Plan Politics by Maurice Goldbloom The vegetable man was of course somewhat amused by my stumbling pidgin Greek, but he was also pleased—particularly because he…
Cairo to Damascus, by John Roy Carlson, and Eternal Stranger, by Lawrence Resner by George Z. Goldberg
Death of a Genius:The Last Days of Thomas Wolfe by Hans Meyerhoff This happened in Washington, D.C., on September 15, 1948, when I was looking for a room.
Disraeli: The Chosen of History:Uniting the Old Jerusalem and the New by Philip Rieff George Saintsbury thought not only that Disraeli “founded a remarkable school of fiction,” but that his politics were as romantic…
Jewish Work-Camp in Indianapolis:The Younger Generation Rolls Up Its Sleeves by Irwin Stark On a weekday afternoon last August, the rabbi of the Orthodox Central Hebrew Congregation of Indianapolis stood surveying a group…
The Day the FBI Came to Our House:America’s Security Police in Action by Harry Gersh It was about two-thirty in the afternoon of a warm Saturday a couple of months ago when the FBI came…
Why the Kremlin Extorts Confessions:The Most Jealous God, the Cruelest Inquisition by Melvin J. Lasky IN THE light of all that was to happen during the great purge of 936-I938, it is interesting to note…