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Editor: J. i'iOC\1:\'I'.H.l

CONTENTS

FRONTISPIECE : New Drawings by Josef Herman 1-2 EDITORIAL 5 JACOB FICHMAN: Writing for the Reader 9 JOSEPH LEFTWICH: Anglo·Jewish Literature...... 14 EMANUEL LITVINOFF: The Day the World

Came to an End

25

DANNIE ABSE: Two Poems

34

HYMAN LEWIS: The Death of a Prophet

MICHAEL ELTON : Epstein

36

43

ROBERT WRAIGHT : Letter to Jacob Epstein ...... 44 ART INSET 4 7-50 JACOB SONNTAG: Peretz Rediscovered 51 Y. L. PERETZ:

Two Poems

" The Shtreimel "

" The Golden Chain "

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67

ZALMANN SHNEUR: Sabbath Poem

75

MARTIN LAWRENCE: The Hebrew Opera

ELIEZER STEINBARG : Fable ......

76

78

FRANK JACKSON and ALEXANDER BARON :

Outlook for New Playwrights

79

GERALD GRABER: Future of Jewish Education...... 84 E. W. PODOLSKY : Plea for Yiddish 87 HERMAN SCHWAB : " The Last Jew .• .• " 89 " CRITIC" : Books and Writers 91

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