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Vol. 3. No. t. (9) SUMMER 1955 Editor : J. Sonntag CONTENTS Page I PAMELA MELNIKOFF Short Story ... 19 RoLAND CAMBERTON Hessel Street 20 A. A. RoBACK, CHAIM RABIN, DAVID DIACHES Cultural Survival 31 EDITORIAL ..• HYMAN LEVY Albert Einstein ALFRED WERNER Romain Rolland's 3 Leiters to Elie Walach ... M. N. KASKET The Promise WALTER GoLDSTEIN " Ali yah " on 6 · FouR PoEMS by Karen Lowenthal, 8 Joan N. Jacobs, G. Lewkowicz and Robert Emoff 22 a Return Ticket . . . . . . . . . 13 HANS KELLER The Israel Philhar- DR. J. SAGALL Ch. N. Bialik monic Orchestra . . . . . . 17 0. SoMECH PHILLIPPS The First Gentlemen of Jews' College JANKEL ADLER The Thorny Path .. . 24 JOSEPH HERMAN Mane-Katz 25 18 FRED STONE Jacques Lipchitz 23 27 BooKS AND WRITERS • • . • .. 40 REVIEWS (by Israel Finestein, Gerald Graber, Frank Jackson, Alan W. Miller, Paul Nugat, Dennis Silk, etc.) ART REPROOUCfiONS (Judith DeBeer, Mane-Katz, Michel Kikoine, Jacques Lipchitz); PHOTOS: Karsh and Agencies. COPYRIGHT FOR ALL MATERIAL PUBLISHED IN THE JEWISH QUARTERLY IS STRICTLY RESERVED. -------------------·-- AFTER SEVEN YEARS ... I SRAEL has just celebrated the seventh anni­ versary of her Independence, while the world at large commemorated the tenth anniversary of the Allied victory over Fascism, the-darkest tyranny mankind had ever known. . some politicians would like us to forget all this and to hail the re-emergence of a German army as a new dawn in European history. Nor were these two events unconnected. While all of Europe has suffered i.ni.mense losses in lives and destruction of every kind, the Jewish people have lost a third of their number and European Jews alone were brought to the verge of complete extinction as the result of Hitler's policy of extermination of the Jews in all countries overrun and occupied by the German armies. When victory was finally achieved, six million Jews were no longer alive to see its coming. When the Jewish communities in the liberated countries started to rebuild their lives, a great many of the remnants of surviving Jews no longer saw any future for themselves in war-shattered Europe. To them the new State of Israel held out the hope of a new life, free from fear, free from discrimination, free from injustice, national and social. But we will not and cannot forget. By some twist of history, it is the very existence of the State of Israel that will always remind us of what preceded its formation. NATIONS and States are not born on one day, though a given date may commemorate a decisive event in the historical development that led to their formation. When on May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion proclaimed Israel's Independence and the State of Israel, by this very proclamation, came into being, this was not, and could not have been, the accomplishment of one man, or one party, or even, for that matter, of the Jews i,n Israel alor¢. It was an historical event in the making of which the Jews of what was then Palestine, by the sweat of their labour, by their struggle and sacrifices, had their full share. But forces and circumstances beyond their SEVEN years are not a long time in the life of any nation or any country. History is made in decades and centuries. But neither are ten years a long enough time to make people forget the cruelties of war or the horrors of a regime that .put innocent men, women and children to death by starvation, torture and wholesale murder. Yet Editorial: 68 Worcester Crescent, London, N.W.7 Telephone: MIL 2268 Publishers: Jewish Literary Publications (J. Shindler) 59-61 Hatton Garden, London, E.C.l (Tel.: HOL 2143) 2/6 Annual Subscription 10/6 (post free) U.S.A. and Canada $2

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Vol. 3. No. t. (9)

SUMMER 1955

Editor : J. Sonntag

CONTENTS

Page I

PAMELA MELNIKOFF Short Story ... 19 RoLAND CAMBERTON Hessel Street 20 A. A. RoBACK, CHAIM RABIN, DAVID DIACHES Cultural Survival 31

EDITORIAL ..•

HYMAN LEVY Albert Einstein ALFRED WERNER Romain Rolland's

3

Leiters to Elie Walach ... M. N. KASKET The Promise WALTER GoLDSTEIN " Ali yah " on 6 · FouR PoEMS by Karen Lowenthal, 8 Joan N. Jacobs, G. Lewkowicz and Robert Emoff 22

a Return Ticket . . . . . . . . . 13 HANS KELLER The Israel Philhar- DR. J. SAGALL Ch. N. Bialik monic Orchestra . . . . . . 17 0. SoMECH PHILLIPPS The First

Gentlemen of Jews' College

JANKEL ADLER The Thorny Path .. . 24 JOSEPH HERMAN Mane-Katz 25

18 FRED STONE Jacques Lipchitz

23

27

BooKS AND WRITERS • • . • .. 40 REVIEWS (by Israel Finestein, Gerald

Graber, Frank Jackson, Alan W. Miller, Paul Nugat, Dennis Silk, etc.)

ART REPROOUCfiONS (Judith DeBeer,

Mane-Katz, Michel Kikoine, Jacques Lipchitz); PHOTOS: Karsh and Agencies.

COPYRIGHT FOR ALL MATERIAL PUBLISHED IN THE JEWISH QUARTERLY IS STRICTLY RESERVED.

-------------------·--

AFTER SEVEN YEARS ... I SRAEL has just celebrated the seventh anni­ versary of her Independence, while the world at large commemorated the tenth anniversary of the Allied victory over Fascism, the-darkest tyranny mankind had ever known. .

some politicians would like us to forget all this and to hail the re-emergence of a German army as a new dawn in European history.

Nor were these two events unconnected. While all of Europe has suffered i.ni.mense losses in lives and destruction of every kind, the Jewish people have lost a third of their number and European Jews alone were brought to the verge of complete extinction as the result of Hitler's policy of extermination of the Jews in all countries overrun and occupied by the German armies. When victory was finally achieved, six million Jews were no longer alive to see its coming.

When the Jewish communities in the liberated countries started to rebuild their lives, a great many of the remnants of surviving Jews no longer saw any future for themselves in war-shattered Europe. To them the new State of Israel held out the hope of a new life, free from fear, free from discrimination, free from injustice, national and social.

But we will not and cannot forget. By some twist of history, it is the very existence of the State of Israel that will always remind us of what preceded its formation.

NATIONS and States are not born on one day,

though a given date may commemorate a decisive event in the historical development that led to their formation. When on May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion proclaimed Israel's Independence and the State of Israel, by this very proclamation, came into being, this was not, and could not have been, the accomplishment of one man, or one party, or even, for that matter, of the Jews i,n Israel alor¢. It was an historical event in the making of which the Jews of what was then Palestine, by the sweat of their labour, by their struggle and sacrifices, had their full share. But forces and circumstances beyond their

SEVEN years are not a long time in the life of any nation or any country. History is made in decades and centuries. But neither are ten years a long enough time to make people forget the cruelties of war or the horrors of a regime that .put innocent men, women and children to death by starvation, torture and wholesale murder. Yet

Editorial: 68 Worcester Crescent, London, N.W.7

Telephone: MIL 2268

Publishers: Jewish Literary Publications (J. Shindler) 59-61 Hatton Garden, London, E.C.l (Tel.: HOL 2143) 2/6 Annual Subscription 10/6 (post free)

U.S.A. and Canada $2

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