Language and Silence, by George Steiner by Commentary Bk ONE EVENING some years ago in Cambridge (England) I was present at a party at which two dons had come…
Language and Silence, by George Steiner by Commentary Bk ONE EVENING some years ago in Cambridge (England) I was present at a party at which two dons had come…
O The Chimneys, by Nelly Sachs by Fritz J. Raddatz GERMANY, a country whose inhabitants are fond of being called the people of poets and thinkers, has often reserved a…
Rhetoric and the Arab Mind by Robert Alter IT IS NATURAL enough that the parties to any conflict should construct onesided versions of the nature of the conflict,…
The Curious Case of Kol Nidre by Herman Kieval All vows, renunciations, promises, obligations, oaths, taken from this Day of Atonement till the next, may we attain it in…
The Fiction Machine by John Thompson The Pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat: Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now,…
The French Enlightenment and the Jews, by Arthur Hertzberg by Jacob Katz THE HISTORY OF European Jewry during the last two or three hundred years has assumed, in our generation, an interest…
The New York Intellectuals: A Chronicle & A Critique by Irving Howe WE DO NOT YET have a full-scale history of intellectuals in the United States, but when that book comes to…
The Passionate People: What It Means to be a Jew in America, by Roger Kahn by Marshall Sklare ROGER KAHN'S The Passionate People (which, according to Herbert Kubly, "perhaps . . .does for the Jewish middle class what…
The Soviet Achievement, by J. P. Nettl by Adam B. Ulam LIKE MANY another great and complex historical event, the Russian Revolution does not yield easily to popularization. Mr. Nettl tells…
The State of Social Science by Ben B. Seligman How DOES one review encyclopedias? Elephantine conglomerations of knowledge, they are likely to leave one dazed after several perusals. Perusals…
