Abelson, Alter. "Why Were You Silent?" Jewish Spectator 11 (July 1946): 21. [Poem damning "strong" and "Christian" countries for their silence during the Shoah.]

Adams, James Luther. "Guilt in Our Times." Review of The Only Way by Karl Barth, The Question of German Guilt by Karl Jaspers, and Hitler in Our Selves by Max Picard. Commentary 6 (December 1948): 588-90. [Omnibus review of three accounts of postwar German guilt, most favorable to Barth.]

Adelman, Samuel. "Sleep On, American Jews!" Jewish Spectator 11 (March 1946): 25. [Poem by a Dover, N.J., rabbi warning American Jews not to ignore "the misery/ Which has befallen your people."]

Adelman, Seymour. "Winter Nights." Jewish Spectator 11 (February 1946): 12-13. [Brief meditative essay on children’s deaths under the Nazis while watching a daughter sleep.]

Adler, Hans. "No Grapes, No Wrath." Commentary 3 (April 1947): 341-43. [Allegorical story, by a Viennese-born American writer, about a Jew’s experience before, during, and after the Shoah.]

Alpert, Carl. "We Don’t Know the Meaning of Sacrifice." Jewish Spectator 11 (June 1946): 15-16, 25. [Essay on the unwillingness of American Jewry to assist the Jews of Europe.]

Arendt, Hannah. "Social Science Techniques and the Study of Concentration Camps." Jewish Social Studies 12 (January

Hannah Arendt ca. 1950

1950): 49-64. [Essay arguing that the Holocaust calls into question the preconceptions of history and social science.]

Ayalti, J. "The Eternal Values." Tr. [Yiddish] Nathan Halper. Commentary 4 (December 1947): 546-51. [Story about Jewish tradition and the Holocaust.]

–––––. "Memo from the Thirty-Six." Tr. [Yiddish] Jacob Sloan. Commentary 6 (September 1948): 236-40. [Fantastic story in which the lamed-vavniks convene near Treblinka and appoint an emissary to carry their protest to heaven.]

Bach, Julian, Jr. "Death of a Killer." Commentary 2 (October 1946): 317-19. [Deathbed confessions of Franz Ziereis, Kommandant of Mauthausen.]

Badt-Strauss, Bertha. "Karl Wolfskehl’s ‘Last Word.’" Reconstructionist 14 (January 21, 1949): 20-21. [Critical essay considering Wolfskehl’s poetry as response to the Shoah.]

–––––. "My World, and How It Crashed." Menorah Journal 39 (1951): 90-100. [Memoir of middle-class Jewish life in pre-Holocaust Germany.]

Baeck, Leo. "Life in a Concentration Camp." Jewish Spectator 11 (July 1946): 12-13. [Philosophical memoir of Theresienstadt by its spiritual leader.]

Barack, Nathan. "John Hersey on Events and Opinions inside ‘The Wall.’" Reconstructionst 16 (November 3, 1950): 22-28. [Critical essay by a Sheboygan, Wisconsin, rabbi.]

Baron, Salo W. "At the Turning Point." Menorah Journal 33 (1945): 1-10. [Speculative essay by the distinguished Jewish historian on the prospects for Jewry after the Holocaust.]

–––––. "The Spiritual Reconstruction of European Jewry." Commentary 1 (November 1945): 4-12. [Brilliant and prescient essay on the prospects for Judaism in Europe.]

–––––. "Opening Remarks [to "Problems of Research in the Study of the Jewish Catastrophe"]." Jewish Social Studies 12 (January 1950): 13-16. [Speculation about continuity between previous Jewish catastrophes and the Shoah.]

Becker, George J. "The Road Back." Review of My Father’s House by Meyer Levin. Commentary 4 (September 1947): 292-93. [Favorable review describing Levin’s as a novel about survivors.]

–––––. "The Ghetto as Myth." Review of On This Side Nothing by Alex Comfort. Commentary 7 (March 1949): 299-300. [Ambivalent review of a ghetto novel by the author of the later Joy of Sex.]

Bendix, Hans. "Denmark: Oasis of Decency." Commentary 4 (September 1947): 246-50. [Historical essay by anti-Nazi emigré on the "salvation of the Danish Jews."]

Bernstein, David. "Jewish Insecurity and American Realities." Commentary 5 (February 1948): 119-27. [Essay on changes in the thinking of American Jews engendered by the Holocaust.]

Bettelheim, Bruno. "The Victim’s Image of the Anti-Semite." Commentary 5 (February 1948): 173-79. [Essay on Jewish stereotypes of the SS, and how they functioned in the Lagers. (See also Halpern.)]

Bickel, Shlomo. Review of A Vanderung iber Okupirte Gebitn by Tania

Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski at the opening of a soup kitchen in the Lodz ghetto

Fuchs. Jewish Social Studies 12 (January 1950): 99-100. [Review of Yiddish memoir includes speculations on gender differences.]

Bloom, Solomon F. "Dictator of the Lodz Ghetto." Commentary 7 (February 1949): 111-22. [First English-language account of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, based on sources in Yiddish and French.]

–––––. "Toward the Ghetto Dictator." Jewish Social Studies 12 (January 1950): 73-78. [Essay on the political role of the heads of the Judenräte. (See also Duker, "Comments.")]

Carroll, Howard. "Mortal Witness." Menorah Journal 34 (Spring 1946): 56-61. [Poem by a Christian divinity student based on Lamentations Rabbah and dedicated to the Jews of Warsaw.]

–––––. "In Memoriam: S. S. Exodus." Menorah Journal 36 (Autumn 1948): 323. [English sonnet describing a rupture with Christianity and classical culture because of the Jews’ fate.]

Cohen, Elliott E. "An Act of Affirmation." Editorial. Commentary 1 (November 1945): 1-3. [Cites the Holocaust as occasion for founding of the magazine.]

–––––. "The Intellectuals and the Jewish Community." Commentary 8 (July 1949): 20-30. [Essay ascribing American-Jewish intellectuals’ preoccupation with totalitarianism to the Holocaust.]

–––––. "What Do the Germans Propose to Do?" Commentary 10 (September 1950): 225-28. [Address to

Lucy Dawidowicz

German audience in Berlin, calling for an end to German silence on the Holocaust.]

Cutler, Judith. "For One Unborn at Warsaw." Chicago Jewish Forum 10 (Summer 1952): 278. [Poem on a child better off unborn.]

Dawidowicz, Lucy S. "The Epic of the Warsaw Ghetto." Menorah Journal 38 (1950): 88-103. [Historical essay on the ghetto uprising based on untranslated sources in Yiddish.]

Dellar, Dorothy Adele. "Vindication." Reconstructionist 15 (May 27, 1949): 25. [Zionist poem: "the recent dead/ of Auschwitz" are told that Israel will "wipe from [their] souls/ the memory of fear. . . ."]

–––––. "Are We Committing Self-Murder?" Reconstructionist 11 (February 8, 1946): 13-17. [Essay warning that the neglect of Judaism will complete Hitler’s work.]

"Denazification or Renazification?" Editorial. Reconstructionist 14 (November 26, 1948): 8-9. [Complains about U.S. reappointment of Nazi officials to government posts as component of anti-Soviet policy.]

Deutsch, Babette. "The Spice." Chicago Jewish Forum 10 ( Summer 1952): 235. [Poem: faraway death "peppers" a walk in the park.]

–––––. "The Look." Commentary 8 (August 1949): 168. [Poem: the face of a survivor; quoted in "Responsible for Every Single Pain."]

–––––. "Scene with Figure." Commentary 9 (January 1950): 65. [Poem: a mother’s slave labor.]

–––––. "Parcel Post." Chicago Jewish Forum 9 (Fall 1950): 30. [Poem: mailing relief parcels to dp’s.]

Duker, Abraham G. "The War to Annihilate the Jews—The Second Phase." Reconstructionist 12

Jews being herded into the Lodz ghetto, winter 1939–40

(November 1, 1946): 10-16. [Essay by a former political analyst for the OSS arguing that British policy in Palestine treats the Jews little differently than had Nazi Germany.]

–––––. "Comments" [on Solomon F. Bloom, "Toward the Ghetto Dictator"]. Jewish Social Studies 12 (January 1950): 79-82. [Suggests attention to Rumkowski may assist Holocaust denial.]

–––––. Review of The Root and the Bough edited by Leo W. Schwarz. Reconstructionist 16 (Jan. 26, 1951): 29-30. [Argues that confrontation with Shoah will cure American Jewry’s "infantilism."]

Dworetzki, Mark. "A Day in the Ghetto." Tr. [Yiddish] Jacob Sloan. Jewish Spectator 11 (October 1946): 16-20. [Memorial reconstruction of one day in the life of the Vilna ghetto.]

Edinger, Dora. "The Disturbing Stories of the Survivors." Review of We Survived edited by Eric H. Boehm. Reconstructionist 16 (March 10, 1950): 24-25. [Complains of "mental cowardice" that finds the stories "unbearable to read."]

Field, Allan G. "And God Hardened the Heart of Hitler." Jewish Spectator 10 (May 1945): 22. [Adapts a midrash on Exod 9.12 to suggest that God brought "the deserved punishment . . . upon Germany."]

–––––. "The Man from Bergen-Belsen." Jewish Spectator 11 (September 1946): 26-27. [Imaginary conversation with a survivor who accuses American Jews of behaving as if nothing had happened.]

Fischel, Henry A. "Elijah’s Defeat: An Unsentimental Pesah Story." Reconstructionist 15 (April 17, 1949): 15-18. [One of the first appearances of the figure of the sacred survivor.]

Fried, Jacob. "The Genocide Convention." Chicago Jewish Forum 9 (Fall 1950): 43-49. [Essay urging American ratification of the anti-genocide convention adopted by

Philip Friedman

the UN.]

Frankfurter, David. "I Kill a Nazi Gauleiter." Tr. [German] Ralph Manheim. Commentary 9 (February 1950): 133-41. [Memoir of the February 1936 murder of Wilhelm Gustloff.]

Friedman, Paul. "The Road Back for the DP’s." Commentary 6 (December 1948): 502-10. [Essay by a psychoanalyst on the mental health of the survivors.]

Friedman, Philip. "Research and Literature on the Recent Jewish Tragedy." Jewish Social Studies 12 (January 1950): 17-26. [Survey of Holocaust writing in libraries and archives, concluding "the khurbn literature is prolific."]

–––––. "American Jewish Research and Literature on the Jewish Catastrophe of 1939-1945." Jewish Social Studies 13 (July 1951): 235-50. [Survey of American research, focusing on YIVO.]

–––––, and Koppel S. Pinson. "Some Books on the Jewish Catastrophe." Jewish Social Studies 12 (January 1950): 83-94. [Evaluative essay on 33 works of Holocaust literature in three languages.]

Frucht, Karl. "The Strange Case of Sarah E." Commentary 4 (September 1947): 251-59. [Memoir of a young Belgian Jewish woman who "passed" as a member of an SS auxiliary.]

Gelber, Sholome Michael. "Wherein Is This Night Different?" Menorah Journal 35 (1947): 21-30. [Essay on the uniqueness of the Holocaust by the "Joint"’s director at Bergen-Belsen.]

Geta, Josef [pseud.]. "Jews Inside Germany." Chicago Jewish Forum 7 (Winter 1948-49): 85-90. [A Buchenwald survivor reports German efforts to evade responsibility.]

Gevins, Michael. "The Sanctified." Jewish Spectator 11 (January 1946): 20. [Poem about the "miracle" of religious faith among survivors.]

–––––. "So Near, Survivors." Jewish Spectator 11 (August 1946): 22. [Zionist poem urging survivors to make aliyah.]

Greenberg, Martin. "The Common Man of the

DP's on the road to a new camp

Nazis." Commentary 2 (December 1946): 501-06. [Critical essay on postwar anti-Nazi literature—primarily German—including Brecht.]

Gringauz, Samuel. "Jewish Destiny as the DP’s See It." Tr. [German] Martin Greenberg. Commentary 4 (December 1947): 501-09. [Essay on the intellectual, psychological, historical, and philosophical orientation of the survivors.]

–––––. "Our New German Policy and the DP’s." Commentary 5 (June 1948): 508-14. [Essay on the consequences for Holocaust survivors of treating Germany as "a potential ally."]

–––––. "The Ghetto as an Experiment of Jewish Social Organization." Jewish Social Studies 11 (January 1949): 3-20. [Essay placing the Kovno Ghetto in the context of Jewish history.]

–––––. "Some Methodological Problems in the Study of the Ghetto." Jewish Social Studies 12 (January 1950): 65-72. [Essay on the problem of evaluating historical testimony by survivors.]

–––––. Review of Die Vernichtung der Juden Lettlands by Max Kaufmann. Jewish Social Studies 12 (January 1950): 98-99. [Review of 1947 German-language account of the Holocaust in Latvia.]

Guterman, Norbert. "The Ordeal in France." Review of La Presse, la propagande et l’opinion publique sous l’occupation by Jacques Polonski, Contribution à l’histoire des camps d’internment dans l’anti-France by Josephy Weill, De Drancy à Auschwitz by Georges Weller, and La Condition des Juifs en France sous l’occupation Italienne by L. Poliakov. Commentary 6 (October 1948): 393-96. [Review of first volumes from French Jewish documentation center in Grenoble provides overview of Shoah in France.]

Halpern, Ben. "Nightmares of an Old Prisoner." Chicago Jewish Forum 7 (Fall 1948): 14-21. [Attack on Bruno Bettelheim’s theories of survival, from a Jewish perspective.]

Harvey, Adele M. "Eda Unvanquished." Menorah Journal 37 (1949): 75-86. [Sentimental story about the friendship between a survivor and an American Red Cross nurse.]

Heisler, Kalman. "A Letter." Tr. [Yiddish] Jacob Sloan. Commentary 5 (April 1948): 339. [Verse letter detailing an Aktion in Komarno, Ukraine.]

Hoellering, Franz. "Survival of Humanity." Review of From Day to Day by Odd Nansen and Psychologie des Lebens im Konzentrationslager Theresienstadt by Emil Utitz. Commentary 7 (June 1949): 612-13. [Two early works of Holocaust literature, by a non-Jew and a Jew, are praised for "positive conclusions."]

Hunt, Hamlen. "Tonight We Eat Leaning." Commentary 5 (March 1948): 340-45. [At an American seder, a female character feels guilt when thinking of the dispossessed Jews of Europe.]

Hyman, Frieda C. "The Voice Unheard at Yalta." Reconstructionist 11 (May 18, 1945): 19-20. [Zionist free verse.]

–––––. "To Our Brothers of the Warsaw Ghetto." Reconstructionist 11 (October 19, 1945): 14-15. [Zionist free verse.]

–––––. "Safed and London." Reconstructionist 15 (November 18, 1949): 20-22. [Poem in which the Warsaw Ghetto uprising is compared to Masada and a battle in the Israeli war of independence.]

"In Memory of Six Million Dead." Editorial. Reconstructionist 11 (December 14, 1945): 3-4. [Complains of growing callousness toward "the tales of Nazi atrocities."]

Israel, Charles E. "Of What We Were." Menorah Journal 37 (1949): 311-27. [Story set in a DP camp.]

Jarrell, Randall. "These Are Not the Psalms." Review of Poems by A. M. Klein. Commentary 1 (November 1945): 88-90. [Concludes that Klein "was never there, either in the flesh or in the spirit."]

Johnson, Geoffrey. "Czech Refugee." Chicago Jewish Forum 11 (Summer 1953): 245. [Poem about a survivor.]

Kanfer, Allen. "Cyprus, 1948." Menorah Journal 36 (1948): 324-26. [Poem lamenting the homelessness of survivors.]

Karp, Abraham J. "History into Fiction." Menorah Journal 38 (1950): 210-19. [Critical essay on Hersey’s use of historical sources in The Wall.]

Kazin, Alfred. "Salzburg: Seminar in the Ruins." Commentary 6 (July 1948): 56-65. [Report on a six-week summer seminar that allowed Kazin to meet ex-Nazis and camp survivors.]

Kesler, Michael G. "Yohrzeit." Reconstructionist 15 (October 21, 1949): 12. [Poem: visit to a mass grave.]

Kotlach, Mollie. "This Passover." Jewish Spectator 11 (April 1946): 5. [Free verse on remembering the Holocaust at Pesah.]

Kovner, Harry. "A Lament." Jewish Spectator 11 (May 1946): 22. [Journalistic verse on postwar political alliances that ignore the Jews.]

Knox, Israel. "Yiddish Poetry in America." Review of Hemshekh: Antologie fun Amerikaner-Yiddisher Dikhtung edited by Moshe Starkman. Commentary 1 (March 1946): 96-98. [Remarks the crisis in Yiddish poetry caused by destruction of European Jewry.]

–––––. "Is America Exile or Home?" Commentary 2 (November 1946): 401-08. [Essay passim. on American Jewish responsibility to the Jews of Europe.]

Kohs, Samuel C. Review of Jews in the Post-War World by Max Gottschalk and Abraham G. Duker. Reconstructionist 13 (May 16, 1947): 25-26. [Bemoans neglect of the survivors; refers to "the terrific holocaust of World War II."]

Kracauer, Siegfried. "The Decent German: Film Portrait." Commentary 7 (January 1949): 74-77. [Review essay on politically naive postwar German film about ethical opposition to Hitler.]

Kramer, William Mordecai. "Ner Tamid." Jewish Spectator 11 (January 1946): 20. [Religious poem: the eternal light becomes a yizkor candle.]

Kristol, Irving. "Adam and I." Commentary 2 (November 1946): 498-51. [First-person story by the later founder of neoconservatism about an encounter with a militant and unforgiving survivor.]

–––––. "In Hillel’s Steps." Review of In Darkest Germany by Victor Gollancz. Commentary 3 (August 1947): 191-92. ["[A]fter Belsen and Buchenwald, we have lost the faculty of being shocked."]

–––––. "The Myth of the Super-Natural Jew." Commentary 4 (September 1947): 226-33. [Essay arguing that the Shoah ought to put to rest the tendency to treat the Jew as a symbol.]

–––––. "Nightmare Come True." Review of The Other Kingdom by David Rousset, Smoke over Birkenau by Seweryna Szmaglewska, and Beyond the Last Path by Eugene Weinstock. Commentary 4 (October 1947): 390-93. [Focuses on moral choices open to the Häftlinge.]

–––––. "What the Nazi Autopsies Show." Commentary 6 (September 1948): 271-82. [Essay on Nazi ideology: not totalitarian but nihilistic, and not existing apart from antisemitism.]

Lanzi, Elisabeth. "The Survivors." Jewish Spectator 11 (February 1946): 16-18. [Story set in a DP camp.]

Lasky, Melvin J. "The First Glimmer of Extermination." Commentary 6 (August 1948): 157-60. [Narrative recreation of a 1938 Nazi meeting, days after Kristallnacht, to "reassess the position of the Jew in German society," based on its official minutes.]

Lehrman, Hal. "The Quick and the Dead." Review of Ashes and Fire by Jacob Pat. Commentary 6 (July 1948): 89-91. [Enthusiastic review of an oral history of the Shoah, based on survivor testimony.]

Leivick, H. "What Shall We Do with Our Goodness?" Tr. [Yiddish] Aaron Schmuller. Jewish Spectator 11 (October 1946): 20. [Poem in which the important Yiddish poet of New York curses the "murderers" for cursing the survivors "with vengeance-call."]

Lemkin, Raphael. "My Battle with Half the World." Chicago Jewish Forum 11 (Winter 1952-53): 98-102. [By the the man who formulated the concept of genocide: an essay on the world’s response.]

Levin, Meyer. "Of Chanah Szenes and Other Secret Agents." Menorah Journal 34 (Spring 1946): 122-32. [Apparently the first account in English of Szenes and her fellow commandos, based on personal contact in Palestine with one of them.]

–––––. "The Jewish Resistance." Review of Blessed Is the Match by Marie Syrkin. Commentary 4 (July 1947): 98-99. [Hopes Syrkin will carry message of Holocaust to a mass audience.]

Lestschinsky, Jacob. "The Jew in Ruined Europe." Chicago Jewish Forum 4 (Fall 1945): 10-16. [Essay on the survivors by YIVO’s director of economics and statistics; based on survivors’ own writing.]

–––––. "For a Survey of the Jewish Tragedy." Chicago Jewish Forum 4 (Spring 1946): 151-62. [Essay proposing a collective history of the Holocaust.]

Lewis, Theodore N. "A Saint of Norway." Review of From Day to Day by Odd Nansen. Menorah Journal 37 (Autumn 1949): 380-85. [Praises the book as an antidote to the "attitude of quick forgetfulness and speedy forgiveness," which is a form of "moral escapism."]

List, Kurt. "Schoenberg’s New Cantata." Commentary 6 (November 1948): 468-73. [On A Survivor from Warsaw—"a major masterpiece"—including reflections on art, religion, and the Shoah]

Lubetkin, Ziviah. "The Last Days of the Warsaw Ghetto." Tr. [Hebrew] Shlomo Katz. Commentary 3 (May 1947): 401-11. [Memoir by a leader of the uprising transcribed from notes taken at a lecture.]

Mangan, Sherry. "The Outlook for France’s Jews." Commentary 4 (November 1947): 441-47. [Founder of Pagany argues French Jews are secure, despite spasmodic displays of antisemitism.]

Manheim, Ralph. "The Voice of the Blood." Commentary 6 (August 1948): 122-35. [Story about a survivor, an American Jewish official in postwar Germany, and an ex-Nazi claiming to be a half-Jew.]

Marck, Claudia. "Conversions." Commentary 5 (April 1948): 432-34. [Autobiographical story about a French Jewish girl who tries to "convert" to Nazism.]

Maurer, Herrymon [Pinchas Goldfeder, pseud.]. "A Practical Scheme to Settle the DP’s." Commentary 6 (August 1948): 108-13. [Swiftian satire proposing slavery as alternative to free immigration.]

Misrahi, Robert. "The Badge." Commentary 7 (April 1949): 363-67. [Stream-of-consciousness story by a French writer on wearing the yellow badge.]

Moskowitz, Moses. "The Germans and the Jews: Postwar Report." Commentary 2 (July 1946): 7-14. [Despite the subtitle, a retrospective essay on the reasons for the Holocaust.]

Narot, Joseph R. "‘A Brand Plucked Out of the Fire.’" Reconstructionist 17 (October 5, 1951): 21-23. [Sermon on the dedication of a Torah breastplate and yad from a pillaged synagogue in Europe.]

Neuburger, Gottfried. "An Orthodox G.I. Fights a War." Commentary 7 (March 1949): 265-72. [Soldier’s memoir includes account of efforts to aid and rebuild Jewish community in Europe.]

Niger, S[hmuel]. "Yiddish Poets of the ‘Third Destruction.’" Tr. [Yiddish] Moshe Decter. Reconstructionist 13 (June 27, 1947): 13-18. [Essay by the distinguished Yiddish critic reports a poets’ "revolt" against writing about the "hurban Europa," but argues "the impossibility of silence."]

"On the Agenda: Death." Commentary 8 (August 1949): 105-09. [Minutes of a February 1943 Hechalutz meeting to plan armed resistance in the Bialystok Ghetto.]

Ott, Lillian Resnick. "Threnody, 1945." Menorah Journal 33 (1945): 38-40. [Free verse on the war dead.]

–––––. "The Shofar’s Message." Jewish Spectator 11 (October 1946): 23. [Free verse on suffering in the Lagers.]

Philip, Thelma. "David and the Philistine." Menorah Journal 36 (1948): 147-56. [Zionist verse dialogue.]

Pick, Robert. "A Refugee Looks at Anti-Semitism Here." Commentary 6 (September 1948): 207-13. [Essay on the social discrimination, especially in employment, faced by some refugees.]

Pinson, Koppel S. "Jewish Life in Liberated Germany." Jewish Social Studies 9 (April 1947): 101-26. [Major report based on firsthand observations, including stays in DP camps.]

Poliakov, L[eon]. "Eichmann: Administrator of Extermination." Tr. [French] Ralph Manheim. Commentary 7 (May 1949): 439-46. [Historical essay, including first publication of Wannsee Conference minutes.]

–––––. "Mussolini and the Extermination of the Jews." Jewish Social Studies 11 (July 1949): 249-58. [Historical essay on Italian "refuge zone" in occupied France, which Mussolini passively endured.]

–––––. "Human Morality and the Nazi Terror." Tr. [French] Ralph Manheim. Commentary 10 (August 1950): 111-16. [Essay on the morality of the Judenräte and other responses to the Nazis.]

–––––. "The Vatican and the ‘Jewish Question.’" Tr. [French] Rosa Mencher. Commentary 10 (November 1950): 439-49. [Historical essay praising—with reservations—the Vatican’s actions.]

Polish, David. "Holy Writ Was Not Ceased." Reconstructionist 15 (March 18, 1949): 8-11; (April 1, 1949): 21-24. [Essay proposing inclusion of Holocaust memoirs in a revised siddur.]

"Problems of Research in the Study of the Jewish Catastrophe, 1939-1945." Proceedings of April 3, 1949, conference at the New School for Social Research, New York. Jewish Social Studies 12 (January 1950): 13-100. [Papers by Arendt, Baron, Bloom, Philip Friedman, Gringauz, and Starr.]

Raisky, Abraham. "We Fought Back in France: A Chapter in Resistance History." Commentary 1 (February 1946): 60-65. [Memoir by a member of the French Jewish resistance.]

Rosenberg, Bertram. "‘Not So Great Hatred.’" Reconstructionist 11 (October 19, 1945): 16-19. [Personal essay on Jewish hatred of the Nazis by chairman of the Zionist Youth Organization’s armed forces committee.]

–––––. "‘Please, Sir!’" Reconstructionist 11 (December 28, 1945): 12-16. [Essay arguing that Jewish attitudes of inferiority "abet the forces of Hitlerism."]

Rosenberg, Edgar. "The Happy. One." Commentary 7 (June 1949): 566-73. [Story about a German child survivor adopted by French Jews.]

Rosenfeld, Isaac. "Images of a Lost World." Review of Polish Jews by Roman Vishniac and The Vanished World edited by Raphael Abramovitch. Commentary 7 (Feburary 1949): 201-02. [Concludes that "no book . . . can commemorate an exterminated culture."]

Roth, Cecil. "The Last Days of Jewish Salonica." Commentary 10 (July 1950): 49-55. [Historical essay.]

Rothberg, Abraham. "Terrorist." Menorah Journal 36 (1948): 184-95. [Psychological story weaving together the Shoah, a pogrom, and the Israeli war of independence.]

Schwartz, Selwyn S. "The Kin of Job." Chicago Jewish Forum 4 (Winter 1945-46): 104. [Modernist quatrains in English by a poet who had begun his career writing in Yiddish.]

Seligsberg, Alice. "The Law." Reconstructionist 11 (October 5, 1945): 21. [Poem, by a founder of Hadassah, occasioned by the Nazi outrages in 1938.]

Shalitan, Lavi. "To the American G.I." Tr. [Yiddish] Abraham J. Klausner. Menorah Journal 35 (1947): 18-20. [Topical poem: as long as survivors are homeless the work of liberation is incomplete.]

Shneour, Zalman. "Death of the Flowers." Tr. [Hebrew] Jacob Sloan. Commentary 1 (May 1946): 53. [Magazine’s first poem: one thing Jewish tradition failed to teach—"the fine art of dying!"]

Silverstein, Baruch. "The Irony of It." Reconstructionist 15 (June 24, 1949): 30. [Journalistic verse on the irony of the world’s outrage with Israel compared to its silence during the Shoah.]

Sloan, Jacob. "I Was, I Am." Commentary 3 (February 1947): 167. [Poem of imaginative identification with the victims.]

–––––. "No More than Human." Commentary 7 (June 1949): 575-77. [Reflections on the Holocaust’s consequences for Jewish ethics.]

Spiegler, Charles G. "Jewish Youth Renascent." Chicago Jewish Forum 7 (Fall 1948): 8-13. [Essay attributing a "resurgence" of Judaism among the young to "a feeling of solidarity" with the six million.]

Stark, Irwin. "Shock Treatment." Commentary 2 (August 1946): 146-49. [Story about an encounter between a German-American antisemite and an American Jew who is "passing."]

Starr, Joshua. "Jewish Cultural Property under Nazi Control." Jewish Social Studies 12 (January 1950): 27-48. [Essay on fate of European collections of Jewish literature under the Nazis.]

–––––. Review of Cartea neagra by Matatias Carp. Jewish Social Studies 12 (January 1950): 95-97. [Review of the Black Book of Rumanian Jewry covering the years 1940-44.]

Steinbach, Alexander Alan. "Hungry Seed." Reconstructionist 17 (May 18, 1951): 14. [Meditative and hopeful poem on the Holocaust dead.]

Steinberg, Milton. "When I Think of Seraye." Reconstructionist 12 (March 8, 1946): 10-17. [Imaginary account of the destruction of Steinberg’s ancestral Lithuanian home swells to a Zionist appeal.]

Syrkin, Marie. "The Parachutists from Palestine." Commentary 1 (May 1946): 30-38. [Historical essay: a condensation of material that would appear the next year in Blessed Is the Match.]

Szajkowski, Zosa. "The Organization of the ‘UGIF’ in Nazi-Occupied France." Jewish Social Studies 9 (July 1947): 239-56. [Essay on Union Général des Israélites de France, with background on the Judenräte.]

Tigay, Betty S. "Welcome Eternity." Jewish Spectator 11 (July 1946): 28. [English sonnet; refers to "the global holocaust." Quoted in "Responsible for Every Single Pain."]

"To a Future Jewish Historian." Editorial. Reconstructionist 10 (February 9, 1945): 6-7. [Urges historians of the Holocaust not to neglect Jewish resistance.]

Van Praag, Siegfried E. "The Passing of Dutch Jewry." Tr. [French] Irving Kristol. Commentary 6 (October 1948): 322-26. [Memoir, historical and personal, of Dutch Jewry before and after Hitler.]

Warshow, Robert. "The Flight from Europe." Commentary 6 (October 1948): 369-72. [Mostly favorable review essay on Meyer Levin’s film The Illegals, including reflections upon the survivors.]

Weil, Simone. "Hitler and the Idea of Greatness." Tr. [French] Bernard Frechtman. Commentary 10 (July 1950): 15-22. [A philosophical criticism from a Christian perspective of the "false idea of historical greatness" that "inspired Hitler throughout his life."]

Weinberg, Helen Joy. "A Voice Was Heard on Victory Day." Reconstructionist 15 (October 7, 1949): 19. [Poem: the six million appear on V-J Day in the form of a pale lady.]

Weinberg, Linda. "At Merton College, Oxford." Commentary 10 (December 1950): 55. [Poem on a visit to Oxford, which provokes images of the Vilna ghetto and reflections on the "Destruction."]

Weiss-Rosmarin, Trude. "A Strategy for Jewish Survival." Jewish Spectator 10 (May 1945): 7-9, 23. [Essay arguing that on the morrow of the Shoah "[t]here must be a radical revaluation of Jewish education and Jewish culture."]

–––––. "In the Day of Victory." Editorial. Jewish Spectator 11 (January 1946): 7-8. [Accuses statesmen of being more ready to denounce "nazi brutality" than to assist the survivors.]

Werner, Alfred. "The Great Discovery." Jewish Spectator 11 (October 1946): 26-27. [Fantastic story about a survivor.]

–––––. Review of The Black Book: The Nazi Crime against the Jewish People. Chicago Jewish Forum 5 (Winter 1946-47): 148-49. [Argues the need for books to memorialize the dead.]

–––––. "The Junker Plot to Kill Hitler." Commentary 4 (July 1947): 36-42. [Historical and political analysis.]

–––––. Review of Blessed Is the Match by Marie Syrkin. Chicago Jewish Forum 6 (Summer 1948): 223-25. [Refutes the charge that Syrkin’s book was Zionist propaganda.]

–––––. "The Universe of Terror." Review of Teufel und Verdammte by Benedikt Kautsky and Der SS-Staat by Eugen Kogan. Commentary 5 (March 1948): 284-86. [Introduction to the Lager as "a world with its own laws and logic. . . ."]

–––––. "Austria’s Anti-Bigotry Film." Commentary 6 (December 1948): 567-69. [Review essay on Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s anti-antisemitic film The Trial, focusing on its reception.]

–––––. "The Irrepressible Herr Schacht." Commentary 8 (July 1949): 58-61. [On the rehabilitation of Hjalmar Schacht, an economic minister under Hitler.]

"What Hope for German Jewry?" Editorial. Reconstructionist 15 (October 7, 1949): 4-5. [Argues that emigration to Israel is the only hope.]

Wiernik, Yankel. "A Year in Treblinka." Jewish Spectator 10 (May 1945): 10-14, 21. [First American publication of the memoir of the revolt in Treblinka, which achieved canonical status when anthologized in Langer’s Art from the Ashes.]

Wischnitzer, Mark. "The Road Ahead." Menorah Journal 33 (1945): 133-52. [Speculative essay by a Jewish historian; refers to "the holocaust of the war."]

Yates, Dora E. "Hitler and the Gypsies." Commentary 8 (November 1949): 455-59. [Historical essay by secretary of London’s Gypsy Lore Society.]

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