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Contents EDITORIAL 'ISAAC BABEL ... Thu Page The Beginning 3 'GERDA CHARLES Bernard Malamud • LEONARD FLEISCHER In Search 5 Of lde11tity T 'JosEF HERMAN The Warsaw Jew 10 'PAUL CASIMIR Two Poems 14 'SPECIAL CoRRESPOND!NT For A Permanent Memorial 15 SHALOM CHOLAWSKI Resistance And Survival . . . 18 " EMANUEL RINGELBLUN The Life And Death Of Janusz Korczak 21 JOSEPH LEFTWICH Jacob Kramer 24 t JACOB KRAMER Shap1 and Form 24 CHARLES SPENCER The Triumph Of Monkcai Ardon . . . 29 ' NINI ETLINPER The Promised Land ... 31 ;· Dov.VARQI. £ducation In The Kibbittz . . . 35 ,. NEw B~OKS (Reviewed by J.A.S., Choim BPrmonl, J. M. Japp, J. Ll'SSI'r, Nini Ellinger, Judith Mara, J. Sonntag, and Adele Wiseman.) 39-48 ART REPRODUCTIONS: Josef Herman, Jacob Kramer, Mordecai ·Ardon COVER: Drawing by Herman (From the Warsaw Ghetto series) Editor: J. SONNTAG Editorial: 68 Worcester Crescent, London, N.W.7 Tel. MIL 2268 Circulation and Advertis~ment Departments: Daytop Press I td., Dayton House, 18 Barter Str!et, London, W.C.I. Tel. CHA 2413 Siugle Copy 2s 6d (50 C~'!lts) Annual Subscription lOs 61 U.S.A. and Canada $2 (post free) Editorial TO CELEBRATE IS TO COMMEMORATE. IT WAS NO COINCIDENCE that the Nazis made their final assault on the remnants of the Warsaw Ghetto on the first day of Passover. In their attempt to destroy physically the last Jews, they aimed at ·destroying the eternal hope for redemption, nourished and main­ tained through the ages by the historical memory of freedom and liberation won once upon a time and, though lost, to be regained one day. The Germans succeeded in destroying the streets and buildings and their inhabitants-"the Warsaw Ghetto is no more!" announced the German commander triumphantly when the last house went up in flames--but they did not succeed in killing the hopes of the handful of survivors. These latter rose again and, five years later, were among the ranks of fighters who struggled for, and finally won, independence for Jewish Palestine which became the State of Israel. It is proper that preceding the annual celebrations of Israel Independence Day is Yom Hazikaron, the Day of Remembrance. On that day the millions of Jewish victims of the last war and of those who fell in the War of Liberation are being remembered. For to celebrate is to commemorate. The Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto happened 19 years ago. Although we are commemorating the event year by year, it is doubtful whether even to this day we have yet fully assessed its significance. In this unequal contest between the few hundred poorly equipped Jews and the full might of the German war machine which had conquered all of Europe and penetrated deep into the vastness of Russia, human dignity has triumphed over inhumanity and over the brutal concept dividing mankind into a privileged HerrenraJJe and a multitude of "sub-humans" doomed to extermination. By their death the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto proclaimed the right of every individual and every people to live. The State of Israel is the living witness of this right to live. Fourteen years after it came into being it has still to assert this right against its hostile neighbours. Survival and pro,Qress of Israel are the concern not only of her inhabitants hut of Jews

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Contents EDITORIAL 'ISAAC BABEL ... Thu Page The Beginning 3 'GERDA CHARLES

Bernard Malamud • LEONARD FLEISCHER In Search 5

Of lde11tity

T

'JosEF HERMAN The Warsaw Jew 10 'PAUL CASIMIR Two Poems 14 'SPECIAL CoRRESPOND!NT For

A Permanent Memorial 15 SHALOM CHOLAWSKI Resistance

And Survival . . .

18

" EMANUEL RINGELBLUN The Life

And Death Of Janusz Korczak 21 JOSEPH LEFTWICH Jacob Kramer 24 t JACOB KRAMER Shap1 and Form 24

CHARLES SPENCER The Triumph

Of Monkcai Ardon . . .

29

' NINI ETLINPER The Promised

Land ...

31

;· Dov.VARQI. £ducation In

The Kibbittz . . .

35

,. NEw B~OKS (Reviewed by

J.A.S., Choim BPrmonl, J. M. Japp, J. Ll'SSI'r, Nini Ellinger, Judith Mara, J. Sonntag, and Adele Wiseman.) 39-48 ART REPRODUCTIONS: Josef

Herman, Jacob Kramer, Mordecai ·Ardon COVER: Drawing by Herman

(From the Warsaw Ghetto series)

Editor: J. SONNTAG

Editorial: 68 Worcester Crescent, London, N.W.7 Tel. MIL 2268 Circulation and Advertis~ment Departments: Daytop Press I td., Dayton House, 18 Barter Str!et, London, W.C.I. Tel. CHA 2413 Siugle Copy 2s 6d (50 C~'!lts)

Annual Subscription lOs 61 U.S.A. and Canada $2 (post free)

Editorial

TO CELEBRATE IS TO COMMEMORATE. IT WAS NO COINCIDENCE that the Nazis made their final assault on the remnants of the Warsaw Ghetto on the first day of Passover. In their attempt to destroy physically the last Jews, they aimed at ·destroying the eternal hope for redemption, nourished and main­

tained through the ages by the historical memory of freedom and liberation won once upon a time and, though lost, to be regained one day. The Germans succeeded in destroying the streets and buildings and their inhabitants-"the Warsaw Ghetto is no more!" announced the German commander triumphantly when the last house went up in flames--but they did not succeed in killing the hopes of the handful of survivors. These latter rose again and, five years later, were among the ranks of fighters who struggled for, and finally won, independence for Jewish Palestine which became the State of Israel.

It is proper that preceding the annual celebrations of Israel Independence Day is Yom Hazikaron, the Day of Remembrance. On that day the millions of Jewish victims of the last war and of those who fell in the War of Liberation are being remembered. For to celebrate is to commemorate.

The Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto happened 19 years ago. Although we are commemorating the event year by year, it is doubtful whether even to this day we have yet fully assessed its significance. In this unequal contest between the few hundred poorly equipped Jews and the full might of the German war machine which had conquered all of Europe and penetrated deep into the vastness of Russia, human dignity has triumphed over inhumanity and over the brutal concept dividing mankind into a privileged HerrenraJJe and a multitude of "sub-humans" doomed to extermination. By their death the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto proclaimed the right of every individual and every people to live.

The State of Israel is the living witness of this right to live. Fourteen years after it came into being it has still to assert this right against its hostile neighbours. Survival and pro,Qress of Israel are the concern not only of her inhabitants hut of Jews

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