Children of the Gilded Ghetto, by Judith R. Kramer and Seymour Leventman by Marshall Sklare OUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT American Jewish life would be much the poorer if not for the fact that an occasional graduate…
From My Father’s Courtroom by Isaac Bashevis Singer Like "A Gruesome Question" and "Strange Merchandise," which appeared in our January issue, the two pieces below (translated from the…
Joy to Levine! by Norma Stahl Rosen, and Notes from a Dark Street, by Edward Adler by Dan Jacobson THESE TWO NOVELS are set in New York, and their main characters are Jewish and are physically maimed, in different…
Living Theater by Lionel Abel EVER SINCE Jack Gelber's The Connection, damned by the New York newspaper critics, stayed on the boards to win their…
Notes on the American Press by Benjamin DeMott WHAT KILLED the American press? Prickly irascibility. Whose prickly irascibility? Its own. Like every catechism this one has its limits:…
The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York as a Test Case, by Lee Benson by Staughton Lynd LEE BENSON IS A sociological gadfly who for some years has been probing the soft and vulnerable places in the…
The Destruction of the European Jews, by Raul Hilberg by H. R. Trevor-Roper THIS IS A forbidding book. It is nearly 800 pages long. The pages are double-columned. It has nearly a hundred…
The Gray Areas of American Cities by Abe Gottlieb THE DEBATE over the creation of a Department of Urban Affairs may finally focus the country's attention upon those vast…
The New Europe by George Lichtheim IN 1945, when the dust of battle cleared, Europe's former eminence in world affairs was found to be among the…
The Radical Right & the Rise of the Fundamentalist Minority by David Danzig EARLY IN FEBRUARY of this year a group of leading Protestant ministers and laymen in Dallas, Texas, were invited to…
The Stories of Delmore Schwartz by Robert W. Flint THERE IS NO DOUBT that Delmore Schwartz's first book of stories, The World Is a Wedding, was a considerable, though…
The Study of Man: The 20th Century in Its Philosophy by William Barrett THE EARLIEST NEWSREELS that I have seen date from the beginning of this century. There are scenes of the European…
The Two Israels by Alex Weingrod RIOTING SUDDENLY broke out in Haifa's Wadi Salib quarter three summers ago when its inhabitants-many of them Moroccan immigrants-raced through…
Turmoil at Jews’ College by John Gross THE PAST FEW WEEKS have seen a major rumpus in the Anglo-Jewish community. Internal disputes in the community rarely attract…
