Irving Howe socialist, critic, Jew

Irving Howe socialist, critic, Jew / Edward Alexander.

For over fifty years, from the 1940s to the 1990s, Irving Howe was a commanding, if controversial, figure in American intellectual life. Writing with the productivity of a major industry, Howe took on issues ranging from left-wing politics and American writers to Yiddish literature, the State of Isr...

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Main Author: Alexander, Edward, 1936-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©1998.
Series:Jewish literature and culture.
Ebsco e-book purchased.
Subjects:
Howe, Irving.
Jews > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Critics > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Jewish radicals > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Jews > New York (State) > New York > Intellectual life.
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New York (N.Y.) > Biography.
New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 A Lost Paradise: Starting Out in the Thirties 1
  • 2 Labor Action: Socialism and Opposition to the War 10
  • 3 Marxism and Modernism at the Partisan Review 24
  • 4 The Reconquest of Jewishness 40
  • 5 The Fifties: Age of Conformity, Age of Dissent 67
  • 6 The Sixties, Decade of Controversy: The Golem Rises against Its Creator 110
  • 7 In the Shadow of Decades: Farewell to Immigrant Jewishness 155
  • 8 The Final Reckoning: Socialism, Jewishness, Literary Study 198.

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