The first issue of the Contemporary Jewish Review, a bimonthly published by the American Jewish Committee, will appear tomorrow in 96 pages. The editors are Harry Schneiderman, assistant secretary, and Sidney Wallach, educational director of the Committee, and the managing editor is abraham G. Duker.
The publication, the Committee declares, will present an objective and systematic record of events of Jewish interest, as well as material aiding their interpretation and understanding. It will also contain “authoritative reference material, particularly on the political aspects of the Jewish situation abroad, for the serious student of affairs, the teacher, the clergyman and the scholar.” It will include original articles and studies, as well as reprints of important items and significant documents from other sources.
“It is hoped that this publication,” the editorial foreword in the first issue declares, “will be found useful and helpful by an ever widening circle of Christians as well as Jews, sincerely desirous of knowledge and understanding of events affecting Jews in the world of today.”
The first issue includes a summary of events in July and August. The report of the Italian Fascist professors on the subject of racism is reprinted in full for the first time in English. Comment on Mussolini’s new anti-Jewish policy by Ugo D’Annunzio and Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the Committee, are also reprinted. The section on documents includes texts of appeals for the continuation of the non-retaliation policy on the part of Jews in Palestine, issued by the National Council and the Chief Rabbinate of Palestine; a statement by the Archbishop of Canterbury urging Christians to participate in the Intercession Day services in Great Britain on July 17; and text of the protest of the Hungarian Jews against the introduction of the numerous Clausus law in Hungary.
Among the articles are an appraisal of the late Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, by Judge Learned Hand; a study of recent Hungarian legislation against Jews; an article on the Jews in Italy by Cecil Roth; and the complete text and an expose of the workings of the Nazi registration law concerning Jewish property in Germany.
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