Publication

1998 - Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana

Language

English

Word Count

71,000 words, Guess

Page Count

284 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing2964107

Classifications

  • DDC974.7/1004924/0092
  • LCCF128.9.J5 H684 1998

Description

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.

Subjects

Topics

JewsHISTORYCriticsGeneralBiographyHistoricalHowe, Irving.

People

Genres

  • Biography.

Series Statement

  • Jewish literature and culture

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