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[Frontispiece:] THEODOR HERZL	From an Etching by Hermann Struck
THE MENORAH	Theodor Herzl	[261]
Translation by Bessie London Pouzzner
THE PRESENT CRISIS IN AMERICAN JEWRY	Israel Friedlaender	[265]
OUR SPIRITUAL INHERITANCE	Irving Lehman	[277]
ADAM PROMETHEUS, and OTHER LYRICS	Louis K. Anspacher	[282]
SHOLOM ASCH: THE JEWISH MAUPASSANT	Percy B. Shostac	[285]
A Menorah Prize Essay
LIBERALISM AND THE JEWS	Joseph Jacobs	[298]
WHAT IS JUDAISM? Second Paper	Mordecai M. Kaplan	[309]
UNIVERSITY MENORAH ADDRESSES		[319]
INTERCOLLEGIATE MENORAH NOTES		[322]
ACTIVITIES OF MENORAH SOCIETIES		[325]
INDEX to Volume I of The Menorah Journal		[333]

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