Continuing the series on North American Jewish denominations which we began in February with the Reform Movement, and continued in April with the Conservative Movement, this month's Reader's Guide presents publications on Orthodox Judaism, with an introductory note by Prof. Samuel C. Heilman.
"American Jewry today has little or no understanding of the Jewish Displaced Person. By and large, our ideas of the Jewish 'D.P.' are built up entirely on descriptions of horror and hunger portrayed by fund raising appeals or on the contrasting stories of 'black marketeering,' 'continual demanding,' and 'unwillingness to work' in blanket generalizations by newspapermen who often have interviewed some official who himself has little understanding of the Jewish Displaced Person or of what makes him act as he does."
