Irving Howe: socialist, critic, Jew
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Main Author: Alexander, Edward (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Ind. Indiana University Press ©1998
Series:Jewish literature and culture
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-276) and index
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
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 Israel, the condition of the American academy, and New York cultural and literary life. Best known for his prize-winning history of American Jewish immigrant culture, World of Our Fathers, Howe was an outspoken socialist as well as founder and editor of the democratic socialist magazine Dissent. Through a clear, eloquent, and forcefully argued study of Howe's politics, writings, and thought, Edward Alexander constructs a sympathetic yet critical intellectual biography of this complex individual
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 284 pages)
ISBN:0253333644
0585202923
9780253333643
9780585202921

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