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This week in each of the past nine years has been designated as Jewish Book Week. The most fitting way in which it ban be observed in this column is by providing a list, necessarily incomplete, of books by, for and about Jews published in the last year. Many of these books have been reviewed or mentioned in the Bulletin, so that the only comment we need make is to point out a few of the particularly high spots.
Honors in the novel must be shared by Franz Werfel’s "Forty Days of Musa Dagh" and Sholom Asch’s "Salvation"; Alfred Neumann’s "Another Caesar" is no inconsiderable achievement, and among first novels, Henry Roths "Call It Sleep" certainly merits a high position.
Among the books on general cultural subjects, such as biography, arts and letters, special mention must be made of Albert Einstein’s "The World As I See It," which sheds the light of the great scientist’s genial wisdom on many every-day problems; also of Stefan Zweig’s "Erasmus of Rotterdam," which is a monument to international understanding as well as a fine biography.
The following books on Jewish subjects are of importance: "The Jews in Germany," by Josef Kastein; "The Trust About "The Protocols of Zion’," by Herman Bernstein; "We Jews," by George Sokolsky, and "The Jews in Palestine," by Abraham Revusky.
It is noteworthy that three playwrights have achieved the recognition of book publication, chief among them Clifford Odets, the young dramatist whose star has risen high this year. The list on the whole though surprisingly short, is also surprisingly high in quality. Here it is:
Appel, Benjamin—Brain Guy
Asch, Sholom—Salvation (Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir)
Berg, Louis—Revelations of a Prison Doctor
Bernstein, Herman — The Truth About "The Protocols of Zion"
Bernstein, Moshe—Self-Government of the Jews in Palestine
Bodenheim, Maxwell—Slow Vision
Brandeis, Justice Louis D.—Miscellaneous Papers
Cohen-Portheim, Paul—The Message of Asia
Dahlberg, Edward—No Giants Live Here
De Haas, Jacob—Palestine
Dennen, Leon—Where the Ghetto Ends
Eastman, Max—Art and Propaganda
Einstein, Albert—The World As I See It
Engelbrecht, H. C.—Jewish Contributions to Civilization.
Ferber, Edna—Come and Get It
Fischer, Louis—Soviet Journey
Feuchtwanger, Lion—Three Plays Marianne in India
Franken, Rose—Twice Born
Friedman, Lee M.—Early American Jews
Robert Grosseteste and the Jews
Golding, Louis—This Wanderer
The Camberwell Beauty
Halper, Albert—The Foundry
Hirschfield, Magnus—Men and Women
Ish-Kishor, Sulamith—Magnificent Hadrian
Karsner, David—John Brown
Kastein, Josef—The Jews in Germany
Kaufman, Wolfe—Tender Cheeks
Knopf, Dr. Olga—Women on Their Own
Kunitz, Joshua—Dawn Over Samarkand: The Rebirth of Central Asia
Lania, Leo—Land of Promise
Levy, Melvin—Gold Eagle Guy
Lewisohn, Ludwig—Rebirth
Lyons, Eugene—Moscow Carrousel
Marcus, Dr. Jacob R.—The Rise and Destiny of the German Jew
Munz, Dr. J. —Maimonides—The Story of His Life and Genious Translated by Henry T. Schnittkind
Matveev, Michel—Weep Not for the Dead
Nathan, Robert—Road of Ages Jonah or the Withering Vine
Neumann, Alfred—Another Caesar
Newman, Louis —The Hassidic Anthology.
Odets, Clifford—Three Plays
Revusky, Abraham—Jews in Palestine
Roth, Henry—Call It Sleep
Roth, Joseph—Tarabas Antichrist
Ruppin, Arthur—The Jews in the Modern World
Slesinger, Tess—The Unpossessed
Sokolsky, George E.—We Jews
Stern, G. B.—Shining and Free
Untermeyer, Louis—The Last Pirate
Waldman, Mark—Goethe and the Jews
Werfel, Franz—The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
Wolfe, Dr. W. Béran—A Woman’s Best Years
Wolfson, Prof. Harry Austryn—Philosophy of Spinoza
Zeitlin, Solomon—Maimonides
Zweig, Stefan—Erasmus of Rutterdam.
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