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The article presents information about the paper "From the Dreyfus Affair to France Today," by Hannah Arendt, published in the vol. 4, 1942 issue of the periodical "Jewish Social Studies." The anti-semitism of Vichy, coming as it did from cosmopolitan, liberal, civilized France, astounded the world. But, as Arendt shows, it is no new phenomenon but one that has economic, sociological and political roots back in the eighties. Her work in social history is marred, unfortunately, by an uncritical acceptance of the old canards about the Jesuits, whose role in nineteenth-century France as an order, considered apart from some individual members, would receive a different interpretation had Arendt looked as searchingly into the records on this account as on others.

The article presents documents and publications of the United Nations and specialized agencies. These have been broadly categorized under the General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, and the Secretariat of the United Nations. The documents of the Specialized Agencies have been categorized under the International Labor Organization, International Monetary Fund, Food and Agricultural Organization, World Health Organization etc. Some of the documents mentioned are "Draft International Covenants on Human Rights," related to human rights, "Economic Development of Underdeveloped Countries: Land Reform," on land reform, "Manifestations of Anti-semitism and other Forms of Racial Prejudice and Religious Intolerance of a Similar Nature," on Anti-semitism "Review of the Food and Agricultural Situation in Africa," "The Social and Economic Aspects of Refugee Integration," "Labour Survey of North Africa," etc.

Presents a short story "Be or Not to Be -- A Jew," by Ronald Lippitt.

This article features the comments of the author on the story about anti-Semitism. The author advices the main character of the story, a Jew, to decide whether to reveal his identity to his colleagues. He emphasizes on the importance of not generalizing from an individual to a group. The Jewish community should have prepared the character to deal with the fact that he belong to a minority group.