Irving Howe (1920–1993)
Autor/a de World of Our Fathers
Sobre l'autor
Irving Howe was born in the Bronx, New York on June 11, 1920. He became a socialist at the age of 14. He graduated from City College in 1940. During World War II, he served in the Army. After the war, he began writing book reviews and essays for several magazines including Commentary, The Nation, mostra'n més and Partisan Review. For four years, he earned a living writing book reviews for Time magazine. He taught English at several colleges including Brandeis University, Stanford University, Hunter College, and City University, which he retired from in 1986. In 1954, he and a group of close friends founded the radical journal Dissent. He was the editor for nearly four decades. Also in the 1950's, he met a Yiddish poet named Eliezer Greenberg and the two began a long project to translate Yiddish prose and poetry into English, eventually publishing six collections of stories, essays, and poems. He wrote several books including Decline of the New, Politics and the Novel, and an autobiography entitled A Margin of Hope. World of Our Fathers won the National Book Award in 1976. He wrote critical studies of William Faulkner and Sherwood Anderson and a biography of Leon Trotsky. He died of cardiovascular disease on May 5, 1993 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Irving Howe
We Lived There Too: In Their Own Words and Pictures Pioneer Jews and the Westward Movement of America 1630-1930 (1984) 137 exemplars
Classics of Modern Fiction: Twelve Short Novels — Editor — 5 exemplars
American Men of Letters in Five Volumes Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Henry James, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman (1921) 4 exemplars
The Structure of Verse: Modern Essays on Prosody 2 exemplars
Introduction to the Yiddish language 2 exemplars
Student activism 1 exemplars
Dissent. Fall 2009. 1989 and after. 1 exemplars
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four : Text, Sources, Criticism — Editor — 1 exemplars
The Basic Writings of Trotsky 1 exemplars
How We Lived 1880 - 1930 1 exemplars
The Victorian Age 1 exemplars
Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse 1 exemplars
Classics of Modern Fiction — Editor — 1 exemplars
Dissent, Winter 1972: Special Issue: The World of the Blue Collar Worker — Editor — 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Other America: Poverty in the United States (1962) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 731 exemplars
Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and the Schism in the American Soul (2002) — Col·laborador — 25 exemplars
Selected Writings of Thomas Hardy, The: Stories, Poems and Essays (1966) — Editor, algunes edicions — 7 exemplars
Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? (Rights and Responsibilities: Communitarian Responses) (2006) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Howe, Irving
- Nom oficial
- Horenstein, Irving (birth name)
- Data de naixement
- 1920-06-11
- Data de defunció
- 1993-05-05
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- New York, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- New York, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA
- Educació
- City College of New York
- Professions
- public intellectual
teacher - Organitzacions
- Partisan Review
Dissent
Democratic Socialists of America
U.S. Army
Brandeis University
City University of New York (Hunter College) - Premis i honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1960)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1979)
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 77
- També de
- 26
- Membres
- 3,879
- Popularitat
- #6,533
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 27
- ISBN
- 145
- Llengües
- 4
- Preferit
- 2
When Eastern European Jews began departing their homelands in the late-nineteenth century, they carried with them the communitarian traditions of the shtetl. Unsurprisingly, these traditions were expressed in and as socialist politics. Much of the political--as well as social and cultural--ferment Eastern European Jews aroused occurred on the Lower East Side of Manhattan (which, after reading this book, I'll look at differently and appreciate even more). When the Williamsburg Bridge went up in 1903, connecting Delancey Street on the Lower East Side with Havemeyer Street in Brooklyn, many of these recently arrived immigrants moved across the East River to Williamsburg, where many of their descendants remain. Bernie Sanders, whose father's family perished in the Holocaust, was born in Brooklyn in 1941. He attended James Madison High School on Bedford Avenue, and there he led the track team.
Irving Howe was a lifelong socialist; the documentary film "Arguing the World" is a very nice biography of Mr. Howe and his erstwhile classmates at the City College of New York (known at one time as "the Harvard of the proletariat"), Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer and Irving Kristol. The film nicely documents the various intellectual trajectories these four sons of the Lower East Side traveled along. One of the primary themes of World of Our Fathers concerns the doctrinal squabbles among the Jewish socialists on the Lower East Side.
Along the way, Mr. Howe presents detailed and fascinating analyses of Yiddish culture and its effect on broader American culture. He does a particularly nice job of explicating Yiddish humor, and its exponents like Henny Youngman, Don Rickles and Rodney Dangerfield, and the extent to which it influenced comedians of all stripes. I found myself wondering what Irving Howe would make of latter-day borscht belt comedians like Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld.
This is an exceptional work of scholarship that it is imbued with Mr. Howe's (born, incidentally, as Irving Hohenstein) obvious affinity with and a fondness for the subject. For some reason, it took me 25 years too get around to reading this book. If the subject of the immigration of Eastern European Jews to the United States, and the influence of those new citizens on American culture and society interests you in any way, I very highly recommend this book--as well as what is arguably its companion, Our Crowd by Stephen Birmingham.
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