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NEUMANN CANDIDATE FOR COUNCILMAN . • 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 18271 ILENE AVE. With the co-operation of the Sammy Run?" Jerome Wei UNiversity 1-2322 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 7201 E. McNICHOLS a few of the State guides, the average. In both fiction and contribution by Jews has not non-fiction more volumes ap- SLOCUM 5566 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