Farming and Democracy, by A. Whitney Griswold by R. F. Tannenbaum THE president of Yale, in this reissue of a book first published in 1948, considers from various angles the relation…
From the American Scene: Recreational Enterprise on the Bowery by Samuel S. Cohen IN ONE of the "shops" I worked in at the start of the 90's I made a real friend, a…
Intelligence Reports on the Two Enemies: Launching the New Fascist International by L. Poliakov MORE than a year ago, in May 1951, Swedish Malmi was the scene of a strange congress attended by several…
Intelligence Reports on the Two Enemies: Stalin Builds a Trojan Horse Against America by Maurice Goldbloom ON OCTOBER 15, 1952, Joseph Stalin told the 19th Congress of the Communist party of the Soviet Union that it…
On the Horizon: Only So Big?–A Puzzler by [email protected] THE quotations below, listed by authors alphabetically, are the byproduct of indiscriminate reading. I'm a compulsive reader, the way some…
The Study of Man: The Third Generation in America by M. L. Hansen IT WAS the achievement of MARcus LEE HANSEN to have discovered the means of studying significantly the role of immigration…
A Mystic Philosopher on East Broadway:The Life and Studies of S. H. Setzer by Herbert Weiner "FOUR there were who entered pardes-the 'garden' of the esoteric -Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Acher, and Akiba. Ben Azzai looked…
Bread from Heaven, by Henrietta Buckmaster by Granville Hicks VERY possibly Miss Buckmaster thinks she has written a realistic novel, but Bread from Heaven comes closer to being a…
Cross-Tides of North African Revolt:A First-Hand Report on Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia by Herbert Luethy THE history of civilization is also one of colonization-in every sense of that ancient word: settlement, clearing, land reclamation, cultivation,…
Farming and Democracy, by A. Whitney Griswold by R. F. Tannenbaum THE president of Yale, in this reissue of a book first published in 1948, considers from various angles the relation…
Germany by Sol Stein I AM a non-believer in surgery's Quick medicine. The sewed-together wound, the stitch In time, the surface scar, is something…
New Fabian Essays, edited by R. H. S. Crossman by George Lichtheim BRITISH socialism has long been a stumbling block to European Marxists and American liberals alike. Standing midway between laissezfaire and…
The Americanness of American Literature:A British Demurrer to Van Wyck Brooks by F. R. Leavis WHATEVER may be Mr. Van Wyck Brooks' distinctive mark in the contemporary American literary world, the five-volume work that comes…
The Gentle Weight Lifter by David Ignatow EVERY man to his kind of welcome in the world, some by lifting cement barrels, laboring. He looks so stupid…
The Great Jewish Books, edited by Samuel Caplan and Harold U. Ribalow by Emil L. Fackenheim THE Jew of the age which produced Hitler and the State of Israel has almost necessarily a powerful sense of…
The Hidalgos of Bevis Marks:Glories of England's Sephardim by Mark Raven ON December 19, 1951, Ilis Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh paid a state visit to the Bevis Marks Synagogue…
The Man Outside: The Prose Works of Wolfgang Borchert by Alfred Werner WOLFGANG BORCHERT had little happiness. Born in Hamburg in 1921, he was eight when the depression hit Germany, twelve when…
The News by Harold Norse TAKING home the Sunday papers, late In the dawn under the stone Looming of abandoned business structures, Past the slumbering…
The Sectarian Conflict Over Church and State:A Divisive Threat to our Democracy? by Will Herberg MORE than once in recent months, Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein has had occasion to note with concern the marked deterioration…
The Tomb of Jethro A Story by A. A. Davidson WELL, anyway, that's what he claims," Pinchas said. "But surely not of all the Druzes," I protested. "After all, most…
