Background
Harap, Louis was born on September 16, 1904 in New York City. Son of Moses and Yetta (Harap) Harap.
( There is so much to Louis Harap's three volumes, this e...)
There is so much to Louis Harap's three volumes, this extraordinary trilogy, that a reviewer can only hint at the depth, penetrating intelligence, research, and insight of the author. This is a monumental work. American Jewish Archives This volume, the final one in a three-part series on the Jewish presence in twentieth-century American literature, first examines the special literary relationship of Blacks and Jews as exemplified in the writings of the two groups. Harap locates the historical roots of this relationship in Black folklore and history and finds illustrations of it in the work of Black novelists from Richard Wright to Paule Marshall. He examines the partial breakdown of this relationship in both social and literary terms during the 1970s.
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( In the Mainstream represents the second in a multi-volu...)
In the Mainstream represents the second in a multi-volume study of the Jewish American as both writer and character in our nation's literature. This book focuses on the period from 1950 to the 1980s. The author provides abundant evidence that by the end of the 1950s, Jewish writers had achieved full status in the realm of American fiction. His study examines precursors and strains of influence relating to this development, with special attention to the influence occasioned by Menorah Journal, Partisan Review, and Commentary.
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( Around the turn of the century, the United States was s...)
Around the turn of the century, the United States was still experiencing the mass migration of millions of Jews and other immigrants escaping oppression and poverty in Europe. Set against this historical backdrop, author Louis Harap examines the development of the Jewish American, as both writer and character, from 1900 to the 1950s. Creative Awakening traces fifty years' development of Jewish American fiction, poetry and humor, as it analyzes fictional portrayals of Jews themselves.
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Harap, Louis was born on September 16, 1904 in New York City. Son of Moses and Yetta (Harap) Harap.
Student, Antioch College, 1922-1925; AB, Harvard University, 1928; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1932.
Library department philosophy and psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1934-1939; editor, Jewish Survey, New York City, 1939-1942; editor, Jewish Life, New York City, 1948-1957; member editorial board, Jewish Currents, New York City, 1957-1992; retired.
( There is so much to Louis Harap's three volumes, this e...)
( Around the turn of the century, the United States was s...)
( In the Mainstream represents the second in a multi-volu...)
(New York 1987 first edition Greenwood. ISBN 0-313-25387-0...)
(Index, notes. A Marxist view of the heroic, social role o...)
Staff sergeant United States Army, 1942-1945.
Married Evelyn Harap, August 1957 (deceased 1993).