The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals / Carole S. Kessner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kessner, Carole S., 1932- author.

Series:

Reappraisals in Jewish social and intellectual history.

Reappraisals Jewish Social History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Jewish authors.

American literature.

Jews--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Jews--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Zionists.

New York (N.Y.)--Biography.

New York (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS, [1994]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the late thirties and forties. And yet the New York Jewish intellectual community was far larger and more diverse than is commonly thought. In The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals we find a group of thinkers who may not have had widespread celebrity status but who fostered a real sense of community within the Jewish world in these troubled times. What unified these men and women was their commitment and allegiance to the Jewish people. Here we find Hayim Greenberg, Henry Hurwitz, Marie Syrkin, Maurice Samuel, Ben Halperin, Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, Morris Raphael Cohen, Ludwig Lewisohn, Milton Steinberg, Will Herberg, A. M. Klein, and Mordecai Kaplan, and many others. Divided into 3 sections--Opinion Makers, Men of Letters, and Spiritual Leaders--the book will be of particular interest to students and others interested in Jewish studies, American intellectual history, as well as history of the 30s and 40s.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter I. Hayim greenberg, jewish intellectual

Chapter 2. Marie syrkin: an exemplary life

Chapter 3. Ben halpern: "at home in exile"

Chapter 4. Trude weiss-rosmarin and the jewish spectator

Chapter 5. Morris Raphael Cohen

Chapter 6. Horace m. kallen

Chapter 7. Ludwig lewisohn: a life in zionism

Chapter 8. Henry Hurwitz: editor, gadfly, dreamer

Chapter 9. "Not the recovery of a grave, but of a cradle": the zionist life of marvin lowenthal

Chapter 10. The education of maurice samuel

Chapter 11. Charles reznikoff

Chapter 12. A.M. Klein: the intellectual as a true ohev israel

Chapter 13. Mordecai m. kaplan

Chapter 14. Milton steinberg

Chapter 15. Will herberg

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8147-4852-X

0-585-34980-0

OCLC:

782878122