Rendezvous with Destiny, by Eric F. Goldman by Granville Hicks PROFESSOR GOLDMAN has given us a full-scale account of what has been variously known as reformism and liberalism and progressivism…
From the American Scene: In Tails, Tallis, and Tachrichim by S. T. Hecht WHEN Jake Hammer died he sure made us trouble. Naturally, you'll ask how could Jake make trouble if he was…
On the Horizon: Israelis Singing in Chorus by Chemjo Vinaver THOUGH it has lately become fashionable to find fault with things in Israel, in the field of music it is…
On the Horizon: The Highbrow Know-Nothings by Steven Marcus WYNDHAM LEWIS's The Revenge for Love, written in 1937 and now published in this country for the first time, is…
The Study of Man: The Interviewer at Work by I. L. Peretz POPULAR images are rarely entirely wrong; and if the mass media and the popular mind today see the social scientist…
German Anti-Americanism: East & West Zones:Clinical Notes for a Diagnosis—and Remedy by Norbert Muhlen AN HOUR after the American military train to West Germany left West Berlin it was brought to an unscheduled halt.…
Israel: The Establishment of a State, by Harry Sacher; Israel, by Norman Bentwich; and The New State of Israel, by Gerald de Gau by Robert Weltsch HARRY SACHER and Norman Bentwich are both prominent English Zionists of long standing, and either might have been expected to…
Lord Acton, by Gertrude Himmelfarb by George N. Shuster WHY should anybody wish to read about a scholarly but relatively obscure member of the Dalberg family who is known…
Making the American Shabbos:The Value of Doing the Impossible by Grace Goldin "SHABBOS!" Reuben Saberski sighed, stretching his small feet out on the ottoman after dinner. "To think the goyim don't even…
Palace Politics in the Damascus Oasis:Syria's Equilibrium, as of This Writing by Ray Alan CROSSING the Srian frontier anywhere is always a little hazardous. True, it is only near the Huleh armistice line that…
Rendezvous with Destiny, by Eric F. Goldman by Granville Hicks PROFESSOR GOLDMAN has given us a full-scale account of what has been variously known as reformism and liberalism and progressivism…
Report on the American Communist, by Morris L. Ernst and David Loth by Oliver Snyder THE publication of this book by Morris Ernst and David Loth probably marks a new phase in the fight against…
Soviet Anti-Semitism in High Gear:What Can the Kremlin Hope to Gain? by Peter Meyer IT IS a rare Cassandra that is up to the job these days. At least in the predicting of totalitarian…
The American Scene in Commentary’s Mirror:Introduction to an Anthology from our Pages by David Riesman "IDLE" curiosity about themselves, like alcoholic excess, is something that American Jews in the past have not felt able to…
The Heart of a Chauffeur—A Story by Yitzhak Dov Berkowitz ONE warm spring day, on my first visit to Jerusalem, I decided to make an automobile trip to the Dead…
The Ill-Tempered Clavichord, by S. J. Perelman by Morris Freedman THIS most recent collection of S. J. Perelman's essays, though small like all of his volumes, makes, as usual, exasperatingly…
The King, the Bishop, and the Jew:A 6th-Century Disputation; Scene: A Hunting Lodge Near Paris by Allan Temko THIS is a scene of the Dark Ages: when Rome had fallen for more than a century, and the rich…
What Manner of Man Was Hitler?Messiah of the Ice Age by Francis Golffing THE study of people's attitudes to Hitler before he came to power and, in some degree, during the early days…
Words Having Holiness by Eli Siegel MAY His great name Be mighty and holy In the world His will has made. May this be with speed,…
