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Rosh Hashonah Greetings—A Year of Happiness to All
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THE YEAR
IN BOOKS
OA
1
of Bugle Ann" was hailed for Jewish Bookshop, Scopus
Pub-
its warm study of the Ozark lishing Company and the -I'nion
w
tans novels, Myron Brinig has tions are odd in t their
yh ' variation
the
added to the total picture of the from publicly important to pri-
By HENRY MONTOR
growth of America. But the vately vain.
Editor'c Note:—Against the West and the South and New Perhaps the Jewish p•
u
background of 4 Jewish literary England are still to have their tion Society may offer the
s
achievements of the past, Mr. Jewish chroniclers to rang with wer to• the disparity between an
Montor outlines the failings a Steinbeck or a Wolfe or a t p h io e n ireer r i e nia g tivsepir fia t
and point s to the possibilities Frost.
ilu orf e jtoews
and
record
of Jewish writers in Ameri-
Perhaps one can best judge what Jews have done in this land
cana. He lists some of the the range and the depth of the and to interpret what the whole
highlight volumes published in Jewish contribution by mention- of America has been and it-.
the past year.
Would the Jewish Publication It
ing at random some of the peak
names in poetry, drama, fiction
sN Society, continuing its important
series of biographies—like
A nation is in ferment. As it and non-fiction : F.P.A.,
"Herzi" and ,cR
boils men look into the churn- Behrman, Babette Deutsch, Fan-
o n n d histories of conimunitie . —
ing depths. They try to feel nie Hurst, Matthew Josephson, and
the currents of centrifugal pow- George S. Kaufman, Sidney like "Rome"—also undertake to
er, to name them. Out of this Kingsley, Meyer Levin, Ludwig stimulate contributions to Amor-
searching—which is, indeed, self- Lewisohn, Walter Lippmann,
na? all due respect to the
Nit
searching—a native literatur' George Jean Nathan, Robert Na- ica With
grows. It is the story of the than, Clifford Octets, Elmer Rice, kindly souls who have thus far
hills and the phtins, the rivers Maurice Samuel, Isidor Schnei- tried their hand at it , , not t , \ , -t •
and the cities, the manners and der, Manuel Komroff, Louis eluding Wiernik, there im
the morals: the fabric of a no- Untermeyer, Morirs R. Werner, yet been an adequate Ili , ury
tion's life woven of yesterday's Leone Zugsrnith, Paul Rosen- of the Jews in America. \k by
memory and today's pride.felt!, Michael Gold, Louis Kron- should not the Jewish Fuld iea-
tion Society offer to publish and
In this process of self-exami- enberger.
nation the Jews too have a part
Where are the younger men to recompense adequately for
What have they done to pre- for whom high hopes were held the folklore of America which
pe to
serve in print a free, sprawling out five or ten years ago? The yo ung Jews are equipd
civilization whose virtues are younv men and women who fill wr ite? There were • m en who
went to even
California
in '48,
etched more boldly against the the anthologies of poetly and Orleans
earlier,
to to New
Minne-
ominous sky from which thunder- prose remain the bright stars sota fifty years ago. New York,
storms threaten? As in the play who quickly fall to earth. The
Boston, Newport, Charleston are
"The Deluge", men examine val- talent of some of them was full rich in memories of the
past.
ues more sharply on the thresh- of promise. Perhaps when writ-
These
books ought
to be to
written
old of final events. The trivial ing calls for sacrifice of every —not
because
Jews have
jus-
seems more mediocre; the amus- economic interest, the ruthless
which they
ing becomes vulgar; and the op- cutting away from environment tify themselves,
don't—but because the integra-
portunistic is rejected the more and tradition: they falter.
tion of Jews into the life of this
vehemently because it is the
land in terms of its literature
Books of the Year
symbol of humanity's self-degra-
dation. Against this background one will be fruitful to the writers
a
A rebirth or perhaps a new may better understand the nn- and to the country as whole.
awareness has marked American tune of the books that appeared
literature since 1933 • Imitation during the past year. One might
There is not the least flower
and sophistication have lost their list the "leading" fiction and yet
critical esteem. A proletarian do nothing more than use a rela- but seems to hold up its head
and to look pleasantly, in the
literature—not necessarily Marx- tive term. •
Next year how many will be secret sense of the goodness of
ian, in the technical sense of the
term—has been one of the prod- interested to pick off the re- its heavenly Maker.—South.
ucts of this period. Fitzgerald mainder counters of the nation's
gave way to Faulkner and he to book stores these fiction "best
Saroyan. The gradation has sellers"; "To Sing With the
New Year's Greetings to All
been more marked in other Angels" by Maurice Hindus,
branches of fiction. Even the "They Went On Together" by
subject matter of non-fiction has Robert Nathan, "All of Their
shifted its base. The stilted bi.- Lives" by Myron B•inig or
ographies and travel essays have "Captain Paul" by Commander
TEACHER OF PIANO
been succeeded by social analyses Edward Elsberg?
in terms of personality and pene- It was exciting while being
Beginners Accepted
trating estimates of economic read—but what did Budd Schul-
forces. berg add in "What Makes
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With the co-operation of the Sammy Run?" Jerome Wei
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Roosevelt Administration, which man began to look like a sym -
has done as much for the dignity pathetic interpreter of Jewish
of American culture as for the character in the light of this
integrity of the average man, distorted portrait of a Holly-
two important series have been wood climber. One cannot re-
launched to mirror the history gard as memorable a year that
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
of America. One is The Amer- produced fiction like "Something
icon -Guide series, a record of of a Hero" by I. J. Kapstein,
and Best Wishes:
the States compiled by workers "The Magic Bow" by Manuel
for the WPA ; the other is the Komroff, "No. 212 Castle
Rivers of America series. The Street" by H. W. Katz, "Em-
scores of volumes in both groups bezzled Heaven" by Franz Wer-
GENERAL
are the most vital writing of fel. One's greatest disappoint-
American history in our time. merit was in Albert Halper's iso-
One notes with regret that, lationist novel, "Sons of the
HARDWOOD CO.
although men like Henry Alsberg Fathers."
The
non-fiction
was
on
a
high-
initiated one of the series and
others worked in anonymity in er level—some extremely impor-
the compilation of material for tant, others no worse than the
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a few of the State guides, the average. In both fiction and
contribution by Jews has not non-fiction more volumes ap-
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been impressive. One might well neared than are here mentioned,
ask: But why should one dis- but the highlights provide am-
tinguish between Jew and Chris- pie insight into the whole.
tian in the writing of .American Should one, for example, men-
history? tion Edward L. Bernay's "Speak
Up for Democracy?" He is the
Ancient Link With America
most over-rated soap-box pitch-
The tiny Jewish cemetery on man the field of public relations
ROSH HASHONAH
Chatham Square in New York provides. His verbiage has no
City or the moldy graves of Jew- more meaning than the prolixity
GREETINGS
ish citizens in old Charleston, of the itinerant selling vegetable
S. C. are reminders that Jews corers.
have an ancient link with this
"Quest: The Evolution of a
land. From the newer immigrants Scientist" was the quiet recital
one might have wished for some- of the life of Leopold Infeld,
thing like Louis Adamic's "My while "I Remember" was Abra-
America" or from the older set- ham Flexner's equally calm recol-
tlers a book in the pattern of lection of the past.
Jonathan Daniels' "A Southern-
Probing into the most delicate
er Discovers The South." The problem of the time, Maurice
rich absorption of a nation's his- Samuel wrote "The Great Hat-
tonic blood resulted in
Carl re,p, as his contribution to the
Sandburg's "Lincoln: The War psychiatry of anti-Semitism.
Years" or, in another field, in E m
il Lengyers "Danube," Jer-
Van Wyck Brooks' "Flowering ome IVeitIman's travel book,
of New England." Is one to put "Letter of Credit," G. B.
on the same shelf the nostalgic
Stern's "Another Part of the
leaving of Sears, Roebuck cata- Forest,"
the continuation of her
p l oog ru a t e s e d which
i t coh , , D oa ev oi( c il O C
l o d hn Dal y n a c ? ( 7;. strange mixture of autobiog-
As one reaches back int me raphy and essay, Max Radin's
"Law as Logic and Experience,"
ory to recall what Jews in
e Leon
an
don e to preserve the flavor hav of Labor' ', Go a odelm
nd " 's "Look at
Th e
American regions, one dredges Knew," Louis Golding'
World I
s compila-
up little. In past years Edna tion of principal travel
mem-
Ferber recorded the growing cries, are a
fair sampling of the
paint of the Middle Weat. Leon- lot.
aril Ehrlich's memorable bio g-
One cannot deal with Jewish
raphy of John Brown, "God's books
witImut noting the activ-
from
Angry Man," is a strikin
i ligov:id;(1)ir-
tY or organizations devoted to
tion to Civil War bibliagraphy. that
particular .field. Outmtand-
Ben Lucian Burman's
JUDGE JOSEPH A.
iin g, of courne, is theaewinh Pub-
a Landing" has been described
tt
which
has
by some as the best picturiza - show
newSocvki.g
new
in the past
tion of the
I p i River few p.m.,.
The Volumes issued
scene since Mark Twain, while front
time to time by th e Bloch
MacKinlay Kantor's "The Voice Publishing
tion announces that a number
LONDON. (JPS) — Following of Polish Jews now in England
a conference here with the newly will travel with future Polish
appointed Polish Ambassador to delegations to Moscow.
Heartiest Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All
September 19
MARK WISDOM
Compstny,
GILLIS
liehrman'n