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The secular rabbi : Philip Rahv and partisan review / Doris Kadish.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kadish, Doris Y., author.
- Series:
- Liverpool scholarship online.
- Liverpool scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criticism--United States--History--20th century.
- Criticism.
- Rahv, Philip, 1908-1973.
- Rahv, Philip.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- An intellectual biography of Philip Rahv, co-founder of Partisan Review, this work focuses on the ambivalent ties that Rahv, a Russian immigrant, retained to his Jewish cultural background. Drawing on letters he wrote to her mother from 1928 to 1931, Doris Kadish delves into the complex and enigmatic character of a man admired by luminaries. Textual analyses of Rahv's works are woven together with other disparate materials: historical accounts, genealogical records, memoirs by Rahv's colleagues, friends, and associates, interviews with persons who knew him, and the abundant body of secondary scholarship devoted to the New York intellectuals, the history of Partisan Review, and Jewish studies. Kadish positions herself in relation to Rahv in attempting to understand her own Jewish identity.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-80085-228-2
- 1-80085-869-8
- OCLC:
- 1241558771
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