Civil Rights on the Diamond  

It might be illuminating for someone in the stands at a big-league baseball game to ask youthful white fans, randomly, “Did you know that until 1947 black players were not allowed on big-league teams?” I suspect at least half would …



Remembrance of Yiddish Martyrdom  

One morning more than a quarter of a century ago, when I made the familiar turn from University Place east onto 12th Street toward “the building, “there were some 20 or 30 men near the entrance shouting, “Where are Feffer …