The Sid Resnick Historical Archive
Our Sid Resnick Historical Archive covers the period from the magazine’s founding as Jewish Life in 1946 through 2002. The articles are organized alphabetically by topic and presented in PDF. For complete back issues in PDF, see the chronological listing at the bottom of this page.
Sid Resnick was a long-time member of our magazine’s Editorial Advisory Council and a frequent contributor of essays and translations. He worked closely with the Yiddish-language Morning Freiheit for many years as a writer and a key translator for the newspaper’s English edition. Sid earned his living as a printer for many years. Later in his career, he worked in the library of the Yale University Law School, was active in the successful drive to unionize Yale’s clerical and technical staff in 1984, and was a founding member of the retirees association. For over twenty years, Sid chaired the Yale-New Haven “Yiddish Leyen Kreiz,” a weekly intergenerational reading group. He was also active in Brit Tzedek V’Shalom, New Jewish Agenda, and other organizations devoted to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — a solution that would respect the humanity and dignity of those on both sides of the conflict. The Yiddish language and the secular Jewish radical movement were central to Sid’s life. For over 50 years, he was also active in the civil rights and peace movements in New Haven.
The Sid Resnick Archive was established by Sid’s family, and is being steadily built as a comprehensive archive of our magazine’s articles since 1946.
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Abolitionism
The Ballad of August Bondi, Aaron Kramer, 1955
Sigismund Kaufmann, Abolitionist, I.B. Bailin, 1961
Abraham Lincoln Brigades
Jews in the Abraham Lincoln Brigades, Albert Prago, 1979
American History
American Imperialism and White Chauvinism, Herbert Aptheker, July, 1950
The Attitude of Jewish Labor to World War I, Morris U. Schappes, 1955
The Ballad of August Bondi, Aaron Kramer, 1955
Civil War Centennial — Celebration or Desecration? Morris U. Schappes, 1961
The Heroic Period of Jewish Labor, 1909-1914, Morris U. Schappes, 1955
The Jews and American Slavery, Morris U. Schappes, 1954
The Jews and the Civil War Centennial, Morris U. Schappes, 1962
The Jews and the Post-War Reaction after 1918, Morris U. Schappes, April, 1955
Jewish Life in the United States — and the Role of the Morning Freiheit, Paul Novick, 1957
Jewish Views of “Americanism,” Jo-Ann Mort, 1982
Jewish Mass Immigration from Eastern Europe, 1881-1914, Morris U. Schappes, 1954
Leo Frank’s Letter from Prison, 1914, ed. Morris U. Schappes, 1983
Sigismund Kaufmann, Abolitionist, I.B. Bailin, 1961
Socialist Traditions of Jewish Labor, Morris U. Schappes, 1950
The Thirties and the Jewish Masses, Morris U. Schappes, 1955
Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism: Global Phenomenon, Christoph Schmauch, 1978
Corporate Anti-Semitism, Stephen L. Slavin and Mary A. Pradt, 1978
The Devil’s Theory of Zionism in the USSR, Sid Resnick, 1982
The Kishinev Pogrom Revisited, Lawrence Bush, 1978
McCarthy and Anti-Semitism, Charles R. Allen and Art D’Lugoff, July, 1953
Shylock and Anti-Semitism, Morris U. Schappes, 1962
Hannah Arendt
The Strange World of Hannah Arendt, Morris U. Schappes, 1963
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Birobidzhan
Birobidzhan, the Jewish Autonomous Region, Henry Srebrnik, 2006
Black-Jewish Relations
The Battle of Parkchester, Elihu S. Hicks, July, 1953
Black Panthers, Rabbi Robert E. Goldburg, 1970
The Black Panthers, Jews, and Israel, George Wald, Huey Newton et al, 1971
Black Power and the Jews, Morris U. Schappes, 1967
Bonds of Brotherhood, Paul Robeson, 1954
Fighting Jim Crow in Cleveland, A. Strauss, October, 1953
The Image of the Jew in the Negro Community, Rabbi Paul H. Levenson, 1962
I Saw Jim Crow in Prison, Regina Frankfeld, 1955
The Jews and American Slavery, Morris U. Schappes, May, 1954
The Jews and Negro Rights, Alice Citron, 1954
Pilgrimage to Atlanta (Rosa Lee Ingrams Case), Jennie Truchman, February, 1954
Renewing and Reviewing the Black-Jewish Alliance, Cheryl Greenberg, 2005
A Summer’s Tale: Defeating Prejudice in a Bungalow Colony, Babette Jones, January, 1961
Martin Buber
Martin Buber’s Social Vision, Louis Harap, 1978
Burial
Jewish Burial in an Age of Ecological Crisis, Joysa Winter, 2008
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Abraham Cahan
Abe Cahan and the Forward, Paul Novick
Center for Constitutional Rights
War Criminals in the White House? Interview with Michael Ratner, 2007
Civil Liberties
Can We Outlaw Hate Literature?, Victor Rabinowitz, February 1959
The People Versus the Supreme Court, 1951
War Criminals in the White House? Interview with Michael Ratner, 2007
Civil Rights
The Battle of Parkchester, Elihu S. Hicks, July, 1953
Black Panthers, Rabbi Robert E. Goldburg, 1970
The Black Panthers, Jews, and Israel, George Wald, Huey Newton et al, 1971
Black Power and the Jews, Morris U. Schappes, 1967
Bonds of Brotherhood, Paul Robeson, 1954
Fight Ahead on Desegregation, by Doxie A. Wilkerson, 1955
Fighting Jim Crow in Cleveland, A. Strauss, October, 1953
I Saw Jim Crow in Prison, Regina Frankfeld, 1955
The Jews and Negro Rights, Alice Citron, 1954
A Monumental People’s Victory (School Desegregation), William Patterson, 1954
Negro Labor Is Advancing, Eugene Gordon, February, 1953
Pilgrimage to Atlanta (Rosa Lee Ingrams Case), Jennie Truchman, February, 1954
Renewing and Reviewing the Black-Jewish Alliance, Cheryl Greenberg, 2005
Showdown on School Jim Crow, Elihu S. Hicks, February, 1954
A Summer’s Tale: Defeating Prejudice in a Bungalow Colony, Babette Jones, January, 1961
Two Hundred Years of Segregated Schools, W.E.B. DuBois, 1955
Communism
How My Father Last Met Itzik Feffer, Paul Robeson, Jr., 1981
Karl Marx and the Jewish Question, Louis Harap, 1959
The Menace of White Chauvinism, Carl Vedro, June, 1950
The Truth About the Prague Trial, Louis Harap, 1953
The Truth About the Rosenbergs’ Case,William Reuben, 1951
What Was the Rosenbergs’ Crime? William Reuben, 1951
Stalin Dissected, Max Gordon, 1979
Vivian Gornick Views American Communism, Al Prago, 1978
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Dance
Choreographing “I Never Saw Another Butterfly,” Wendy Osserman, 1978
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Education
Why Progressive Jewish Schools?, Mira Stone, October, 1955
Albert Einstein
Scientists Warn, Peace or Death, Albert Einstein and Others, August, 1955
Environment
Energy Policy and Jewish Interests, Jeffrey Dekro, 1982
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Howard Fast
Howard Fast Short Story, Where Are Your Guns?, 1948
Itzik Feffer
How My Father Last Met Itzik Feffer, Paul Robeson, Jr., 1981
Film
“Judgment at Nuremberg”: An Indictment, David Platt, 1962
Elizabeth Gurly Flynn
Early Life of the “Rebel Girl,” Elizabeth Gurly Flynn, 1955
France
The Jewish Resistance in France, Mitchell Abidor, 1982
Leo Frank Case
Leo Frank’s Letter from Prison, 1914, ed. Morris U. Schappes, 1983
Funerals
Jewish Burial in an Age of Ecological Crisis, Joysa Winter, 2008
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Gay Liberation
Gays in Concentration Camps, Martin Land, 1982
Germany
Protest Against [Germany] Rearming Grows, by Louis Harap, 1955
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Moyshe Leyb Halpern
Moishe Leyb Halpern, Rebel Poet, V.J. Jerome,1955
Holocaust
Choreographing “I Never Saw Another Butterfly,” Wendy Osserman, 1978
“Comrade Mordecai,” Emanuel Ringelblum, translated by Yuri Suhl, 1962
Falsifying the Jewish Resistance, Ber Mark, 1963
Gays in Concentration Camps, Martin Land, 1982
A Holocaust Survivor Visits Poland, Isak Arbus, 1983
Janusz Korczak, Martyred Educator, Harry Bloch, 1978
The Jewish Resistance in France, Mitchell Abidor, 1982
Jewish Partisans in the Woods, Chaver Paver, 1952
“Judgment at Nuremberg”: An Indictment, David Platt, 1962
The Lambs Were Legend — The Wolves Were Real, Hersh Smoliar, 1959
The Uprising in Sobibor, Thomas Blatt, 1978
Soviet Jewish Partisans, Jack Nusan Porter, 1982
Homosexuality — see Gay Liberation
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Immigration
The East Side I Knew, Mike Gold, 1954
Jewish Mass Immigration from Eastern Europe, 1881-1914, Morris U. Schappes, 1954
The Mexican Americans Organize, Frances Lym, 1955
Irving Howe
Irving Howe and Secular Jewishness, Gerald Sorin, 2005
Israel
The Black Panthers, Jews, and Israel, George Wald, Huey Newton et al, 1971
How Israel Can Prosper, Victor Perlo, 1952
Israel’s Missed Opportunities, Mattityahu Peled, 1978
Israel, Second Anniversary, Editorial, 1950
Israeli Women Pioneers, Hedy Shneyer, 1978
Kibbutzim in Israel, Paul Novick, 1959
Literature of Young Israel, Samuel Eisenstadt, 1961
Making Friends with Israel, Part I and Part II, Lawrence Bush, 2006
To Our Friends Who Support the PLO: An Open Letter, Mort Stavis and Annette T. Rubinstein, 1980
Perspectives on Arafat, Susan Susser, 2005
The Seventh Anniversary of the Founding of Israel, Louis Harap, 1955
The Stones of Jerusalem (poem), I.E. Ronch, 1978
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Jews
American Jews as World Citizens, Ruth Messinger, 1999
The East Side I Knew, Mike Gold, 1954
Energy Policy and Jewish Interests, Jeffrey Dekro, 1982
The Jews and American Slavery, Morris U. Schappes, 1954
Jews and the American Labor Movement, Morris U. Schappes, 1953
The Jews and the Civil War Centennial, Morris U. Schappes, 1962
The Jews and the Post-War Reaction after 1918, Morris U. Schappes, April, 1955
Jewish Culture — A Weapon for Survival, Max Rosenfeld, 1959
Jewish Life in the United States — and the Role of the Morning Freiheit, Paul Novick, 1957
Jews in the Abraham Lincoln Brigades, Albert Prago, 1979
Jews in the Soviet Union (Correspondence from Moscow), Paul Novick, 1959
The Jewish Question and the Left, Old and New, Morris U. Schappes, 1970
The Jewish Resistance in France, Mitchell Abidor, 1982
Jewish Views of “Americanism,” Jo-Ann Mort, 1982
The Thirties and the Jewish Masses, Morris U. Schappes, 1955
Judaism
Judaism as a Counterculture, Lawrence Bush, 2007
The Tenacity of Jewish Liberalism, Lawrence Bush, 1982
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Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka’s Jewish Question, Mitchell Abidor, 1983
Kibbutz
Kibbutzim in Israel, Paul Novick, 1959
Kishinev Pogrom
The Kishinev Pogrom Revisited, Lawrence Bush, 1978
Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak, Martyred Educator, Harry Bloch, 1978
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan — Yesterday and Today, Mort Stavis, 1983
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Labor Movement
The Attitude of Jewish Labor to World War I, Morris U. Schappes, 1955
Early Life of the “Rebel Girl,” Elizabeth Gurly Flynn, 1955
Jews and the American Labor Movement, Morris U. Schappes, 1953
Clara Lemlich Shavelson, Fifty Years in Labor’s Front Line, Paula Scheier, November, 1954
The Heroic Period of Jewish Labor, 1909-1914, Morris U. Schappes, 1955
Socialist Traditions of Jewish Labor, Morris U. Schappes, 1950
The Thirties and the Jewish Masses, Morris U. Schappes, 1955
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Peretz Markish
My Father Peretz Markish, 1986
Marxism
The Jewish Question and the Left, Old and New, Morris U. Schappes, 1970
Karl Marx and the Jewish Question, Louis Harap, 1959
McCarthyism
Forty Years Later — But Not Too Late, Morris U. Schappes, 1982
The Harap Testimony, September, 1953
I Saw Jim Crow in Prison, Regina Frankfeld, 1955
McCarran-Walter and Congress, Harriet Barron, 1955
McCarthy and Anti-Semitism, Charles R. Allen and Art D’Lugoff, July, 1953
Memorandum of the ADL, September, 1953
The Inquisition of Paul Novick, August, 1955
Open Letter to the Jewish People of the United States, Editorial, September, 1953
Albert Memmi
The Hairshirt of Albert Memmi, A.B. Magil, 1978
Felix Mendelssohn
The Incredible Felix Mendelssohn, Maurice Rauch, 1959
Mexican Americans
Brotherhood in Boyle Heights, Frances Lym, 1955
The Mexican Americans Organize, Frances Lym, 1955
Military Budget
Ben Cohen, Costs of War, 2003
Music
Heroism in Jewish Folk Song, David Platt, 1962
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Ralph Nader
Stop Ralph Nader! (He Can Show You How), Lawrence Bush, 2007
Nazism
Heusinger’s Nazi Record, Charles R. Allen, Jr., 1961
Nazi War Criminals Living Among Us, Charles R. Allen, Jr., 1963
New Jewish Agenda
New Jewish Agenda’s Diversity, Max Rosenfeld, 1982
New Left
The Jewish Question and the Left, Old and New, Morris U. Schappes, 1970
Nuclear Energy
Energy Policy and Jewish Interests, Jeffrey Dekro, 1982
Nuclear Weapons
Scientists Warn, Peace or Death, Albert Einstein and Others, August, 1955
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PLO
To Our Friends Who Support the PLO: An Open Letter, Mort Stavis and Annette T. Rubinstein, 1980
Perspectives on Arafat, Susan Susser, 2005
Grace Paley
Grace Paley interview, 1998
I.L. Peretz
Berel the Tailor, I.L. Peretz, 1955
Prague Trial
The Truth About the Prague Trial, by Louis Harap, 1953
Prison
I Saw Jim Crow in Prison, Regina Frankfeld, 1955
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Racism
American Imperialism and White Chauvinism, Herbert Aptheker, July, 1950
The Battle of Parkchester, Elihu S. Hicks, July, 1953
Can We Outlaw Hate Literature?, Victor Rabinowitz, February 1959
Civil War Centennial — Celebration or Desecration? Morris U. Schappes, January, 1961
Fighting Jim Crow in Cleveland, A. Strauss, October, 1953
I Saw Jim Crow in Prison, Regina Frankfeld, 1955
The Menace of White Chauvinism, Carl Vedro, June, 1950
The New “Rassenscience,” Karen Sacks, 1978
Pilgrimage to Atlanta (Rosa Lee Ingrams Case), Jennie Truchman, February, 1954
Showdown on School Jim Crow, Elihu S. Hicks, February, 1954
Michael Ratner
War Criminals in the White House? Interview with Michael Ratner, 2007
Paul Robeson
Bonds of Brotherhood, Paul Robeson, 1954
Paul Robeson’s Legacy — On My Father’s Centennial, Paul Robeson, Jr., 1998
Protecting Paul Robeson at Peekskill, Arthur J. Ost, 1998
Ernestine L. Rose
Ernestine Louise Rose (1810-1892), Bennett Muraskin, 1998
The Career of Ernestine L. Rose, Jean Karsavina, 1959
Rosenberg Case
The Legacy of the Rosenbergs, with letters by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, 1953
The Rosenberg Case Reviewed, Aaron Katz, 1983
The Truth About the Rosenbergs’ Case, William Reuben, 1951
“What Did They Do To Them?” Interview with Julius Rosenberg’s Mother Sophie, Alice Citron, October, 1953
Was the Sobell Sentence Fair? Fred E. Daniels, October, 1953
What Was the Rosenbergs Crime? William Reuben, 1951
Morris Rosenfeld
Poems of Morris Rosenfeld, tr. Aaron Kramer, June, 1950
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Morris U. Schappes
Forty Years Later — But Not Too Late, 1982
Morris U. Schappes’ Prison Memoir, 1982
Personal and Political, 1982
Science
Scientists Warn, Peace or Death, Albert Einstein and Others, August, 1955
Secularism
Being a Secular Jew, Elsie Levitan, 1978
Does Jewish Secularism Have a Future? — A Forum, 2009
Heroism in Jewish Folk Song, David Platt, 1962
Jewish Culture — A Weapon for Survival, Max Rosenfeld, 1959
On Being a Secular Jew, Elsie Levitan, 1978
Being a Secular Jew 2, Elsie Levitan, 1978
Secular Jewish Education in the U.S.A., Itche Goldberg, 1959
A Secular View of Jewish Life, Morris U. Schappes, 1961
So This is the Secular Jew?, Jerald Bain, 1978
We Secular Jews Are Here, Hershl Hartman, 1979
Zhitlovsky: Philosopher of Jewish Secularism, Max Rosenfeld, 1965
Segregation
Fight Ahead on Desegregation, Doxie A. Wilkerson, 1955
Two Hundred Years of Segregated Schools, W.E.B. DuBois, 1955
Shakespeare
Shylock and Anti-Semitism, Morris U. Schappes, 1962
Sholem Aleichem
An Easy Fast, Sholem Aleichem
Sholem Aleichem and Charlie Chaplin, David Matis, 1959
Sholem Aleichem, Eventful Years: A Chronicle, 1959
Sholem Aleichem Story, “Joseph,” 1959
Shylock
Shylock and Anti-Semitism, Morris U. Schappes, 1962
Sobibor
The Uprising in Sobibor, Thomas Blatt, 1978
Socialism
Socialist Traditions of Jewish Labor, Morris U. Schappes, 1950
Why Socialism? A Symposium, 1982
Soviet Jews
The Devil’s Theory of Zionism in the USSR, Sid Resnick, 1982
Jews in the Soviet Union (Correspondence from Moscow), Paul Novick, 1959
Soviet Jewish Partisans, Jack Nusan Porter, 1982
The Soviet Jewish Situation: a Declaration, Paul Novick, Chaim Suller, Itche Goldberg, Morris U. Schappes, 1982
“Trial” in the Lubyanka, 1952, Hershl Hartman, 2007
Spanish Civil War
Jews in the Abraham Lincoln Brigades, Albert Prago, 1979
Stalinism
Stalin Dissected, Max Gordon, 1979
Supreme Court
The People Versus the Supreme Court, 1951
Avrom Sutzkever
U
Leon Uris’ Exodus reviewed, November, 1959
V
Vietnam and Israel, the Search for Independence, Tran Dan, 1983
W
Warsaw Ghetto
Amid Crumbling Walls, Tevya Bozhikowski, tr. Max Rosenfeld, 1955
“Comrade Mordecai,” Emanuel Ringelblum, translated by Yuri Suhl, 1962
Ringelblum’s Diary, 1953
Morris Winchevsky
On Language and Religion, Morris Winchevsky, 1982
Poems of Morris Winchevsky, tr. Aaron Kramer, May, 1950
Women
Growing Up Female, Jewish, and Radical, Margie Rosenbluth, 1978
Israeli Women Pioneers, Hedy Shneyer, 1978
Jewish Women Now (pamphlet of column reprints)
World War I
World War I and the Jewish Masses, Morris U. Schappes, 1955
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Yiddish
Berel the Tailor, I.L. Peretz, 1955
The First Yiddish Theater Production in the USA, Nathaniel Buchwald, 1954
Jewish Partisans in the Woods, Chaver Paver, 1952
Moishe Leyb Halpern, Rebel Poet, V.J. Jerome,1955
On Language and Religion, Morris Winchevsky, 1982
Poems of Morris Rosenfeld, tr. Aaron Kramer, June, 1950
Poems of Morris Winchevsky, tr. Aaron Kramer, May, 1950
Sholem Aleichem and Charlie Chaplin, David Matis, 1959
Sholem Aleichem, Eventful Years: A Chronicle, 1959
Sholem Aleichem Story, “Joseph,” 1959
The Spirit of Yiddish, Max Rosenfeld, 1982
Teaching Our Children Yiddish, Linda Gritz, 2007
Waiting for Yiddish, Richard Fein, 1999
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Chaim Zhitlovsky
Zhitlovsky: Philosopher of Jewish Secularism, Max Rosenfeld, 1965
Zionism
The Black Panthers, Jews, and Israel, George Wald, Huey Newton et al, 1971
What Program for U.S. Zionism? Louis Harap, 1952
The Zionist Movement Revisited, Louis Harap, 1975
Zionism and Imperialism, Morris U. Schappes, 1953
Archive of Complete Issues (all issues are available as pdfs)
The Black Panthers, Jews, and Israel (pamphlet of reprints), George Wald, Huey Newton et al, 1971
Jewish Life in the United States — and the Role of the Morning Freiheit (pamphlet reprint), Paul Novick, 1957
Jewish Women Now (pamphlet of column reprints)