Converting the Gentiles? by Peter Berger Rabbi Alexander Schindler, in a presidential address to the Board of Trustees of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations on…
Converting the Gentiles? by Peter Berger Rabbi Alexander Schindler, in a presidential address to the Board of Trustees of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations on…
Democracy and the Novel, by Henry Nash Smith by Ellen Moers With his 1950 study, Virgin Land, Henry Nash Smith won a permanent welcome on the shelves of readers who want…
How Rumkowski Died by Michael Checinski Lodz was the first and the last Jewish ghetto in Nazi Europe. Rumkowski and Rosenblatt were included in the last…
King of the Jews, by Leslie Epstein by Ruth R. Wisse I.L. Peretz, the dominating figure of modern Yiddish literature, has a story called "Stories" in which a struggling young writer…
Literary Lives by Robert Alter There once was a time when what passed for critical discourse could be confidently subsumed under two neatly coordinate rubrics,…
Portrait of the Radical as an Aging Man by William Barrett Philip Rahv might seem to be a figure of purely local and circumscribed interest. A recent collection of Rahv's writings…
Samson: A Pseudepigraphical Jest by Roger Kaplan The story of Samson, son of Manoah of the tribe of Dan, as handed down to us in our years…
The Politics of Jonestown by Midge Decter On November 21, 1978, the New York Times-in a gesture normally reserved by that somber and august institution for the…
The Pursuit of Happiness and Other Sobering Thoughts, by George F. Will by Marc F. Plattner George F. Will is unquestionably America's finest political columnist. Anyone who doubts this judgment may easily confirm it by turning…
The Spanish Revolution, by Burnett Bolloten by Joseph Shattan The Spanish Civil War engaged the passions of an entire generation of European and American anti-fascists.
The State of the Art by Samuel Lipman Though in the world of pop culture fresh sounds would seem to appear with happy frequency, the central problem of…
World War II-Soviet Style by Joshua Rubenstein This past year, a unique series of documentary films on World War II appeared on television stations in twelve major…
