From the American Scene: County Official by Donald Paneth Rockland County, in the southeastern part of New York State, is a suburban region twenty miles from New York City.
On the Horizon: Where Yiddish Theater Lives On by George Ross A gala night is not an occasion for presenting King Lear, nor is it a time to look for sustained…
The Study of Man: Is America Still the Land of Opportunity? by William Petersen A popular cliché has it that it is harder nowadays for a young man to get ahead in this country…
Can We Free Eastern Europe Now?Why Neither Liberation nor Settlement Seems in Sight by Hugh Seton-Watson The greatest political problem in Europe, which was open at the time of Stalin's death, remains open today.
Conservative Judaism Faces the Need of Change:In What Direction, How Much, and How? by Fritz A. Rothschild “Has the synagogue become the graveyard where prayer is buried? Are we, the spiritual leaders of American Jewry, members of…
Jew in the Factory:How He Looks to His Fellow Workers by Warner Bloomberg Jr. It was a late summer afternoon and the air inside the plant was thick with heat.
The American Negro in Search of Identity:Three Novelists: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin by Steven Marcus In picking up a novel about Negroes one feels almost as if the writer were starting from scratch—as if he…
The Germans’ Present Conservatism: Its Roots:What The People Want by Peter Schmid "Strange,” Frau Blumel confessed to me, when I visited her home in a modest housing development on the outskirts of…
The “Idealism” of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg:“The Kind of People We Are” by Robert S. Warshow Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were not put to death for their opinions, but from their side, clearly, they died for…
Vergil, Hebrew Prophecy, and the Roman Ideal:Aeneas as the Roman Moses by Moses Hadas The influence of the Aeneid in shaping European ideas on religion and politics has been incalculably great, and it is…
