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...Mosaic admirably fulfills its role as a "Jewish student journal" and at once transcends it. It is largely concerned with a wide range of Jewish topics--religion, philosophy, culture, politics. But its scholarly tone, and the lack of self-consciousness in its pages, make it a magazine well worth the attention of Jews and non-Jews alike. In the past, Mosaic has come in for a great deal of praise in these columns. With the current issue, now on the newsstands, Mosaic remains one of the finest college publications anywhere...
...second section of the new Mosaic is devoted to a number of tributes to the famous scholar, Prof. Harry Austryn Wolfson, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. They include a biographical sketch by Richard B. Stone, a review of Prof. Wolfson's scholarly work by a student, Prof. Isadore Twersky, and seven short pieces by faculty friends...
This issue of Mosaic includes no undergraduate fiction or poetry, but does contain an essay, "The Relevance of Jane Austen: Remarks on Jewish Writing in America," by Lewis Kampf, and a memoir by the Yiddish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer...
...nationally-distributed efforts such as New University Thought. Their contents have ranged from attempts to influence intraparty politics (Advance), to ideological disquisitions (The Conservative), to high academicism (Adams House Journal of the Social Sciences), to literary works and essays more or less focussed around a religious motif (The Current, Mosaic...
...will stop here, for a cursory examination of the tesserae cannot recreate the splendor of the whole Mosaic...