City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities by Nathan Glazer THE AMERICAN CITY is distinguished among big cities by virtue of the fact that the different ethnic elements making it…
Education and Attitude Change-The Effect of Schooling on Prejudice Against Minority Groups, by Charles Herbert Stember by Lewis A. Coser MOST AMERICANS look upon education as a kind of secular magic: allegedly it can cure most social ills if it…
No Further West, by Dan Jacobson by Elmer Borklund FOR A VARIETY of reasons, perhaps, Americans are far from being as sensitive or as vulnerable as they once were…
Samuel and Agag by Commentary Bk The following piece (translated from the German by Maurice Friedman) will be included among the autobiographical fragments in The Philosophy…
Soviet Jews; American Orthodoxy by Milton Himmelfarb De-Stalinization or Re-Stalinization? When Khrushchev expelled Stalin from his tomb, after the last congress of the Soviet Communist party, most…
The Children of Sanchez, by Oscar Lewis by Edgar Z. Friedenberg THIS BOOK is altogether superb. Professor Lewis does what he undertakes to do dra- matically yet unobtrusively, and with a…
The Faith of a Heretic, by Walter Kaufmann by Commentary Bk WALTER KAUFMANN'S latest book, The Faith of a Heretic, rests upon two terms much too casually defined by him. Scrutinizing…
The Idea of the Jewish State, by Ben Halpern by Elie Kedourie MR. HALPERN'S treatise sets out to be, not a history of the Zionist movement, or even of Zionist thought, but…
The Question of Civil Defense-A Debate by Michael Maccoby In the hope of contributing to a clarification of the whole question of civil defense by bringing into focus the…
The Sacco-Vanzetti Case Reconsidered by James Grossman IN THE SEVEN YEARS of their ordeal, from their arrest on May 5, 1920, to their execution on August 23,…
The Struggle for Algeria, by Joseph Kraft by Philip Williams THE ALGERIAN wAR has passed its seventh anniversary and is approaching a savage climax. After vast concessions from France and…
The Trouble With Kennedy by Hans J. Morgenthau ON SEPTEMBER 30 of last year, the eminent French sociologist and columnist Raymond Aron addressed in Le Figaro an open…
Two Memoirs by Isaac Bashevis Singer The two pieces below (translated from the Yiddish by Channah Kleinerman) are accounts of actual incidents which IsAAC BASHEVIS SINGER…
Two Views of “Judgment At Nuremberg” by Harris Dienstfrey "JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG" Judgment at Nuremberg, a three-hour film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and written by Abby Mann,…
