Background
Milton Hindus was born in the Bronx, New York City on August 26, 1916, into the family of Meyer and Minnie (Slutsky) Hindus, and grew up in Brooklyn.
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Milton entered the City College of New York in Manhattan at the early age of fifteen and graduated with his Bachelor of Arts degree with Special Honors in Literature in 1936, at the age of nineteen. He received his Master's degree in 1938 from the same school.
160 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031, USA
Milton entered the City College of New York in Manhattan at the early age of fifteen and graduated with his Bachelor of Arts degree with Special Honors in Literature in 1936, at the age of nineteen. He received his Master's degree in 1938 from the same school.
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Hindus completed additional graduate work at Columbia University during 1938 - 1939.
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Hindus completed additional graduate work at the University of Chicago during 1947 - 1948.
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This title seeks to show through detailed analysis of Proust's philosophical and literary influences as well as his conscious aesthetic, how the various motifs in his works intertwine. It includes sections on Proust's earlier works.
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1962
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This is a sustained inquiry into the thought of the influential scholar and critic Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), intellectual leader of the movement known as the New Humanism. Milton Hindus considers the subjects that most interested Babbitt: ethics, literature, education, and social and political conservatism in the United States. In their most general sense, his concerns were man and his nature as the root of all social order. For Babbitt, efforts to improve social conditions must begin and end with the individual human being.
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1994
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This book, originally published as The Old East Side, is a collection of literature and documents ranging from the autobiography of the sculptor Jacob Epstein and the novels of Abraham Cahan to the reporting of William Dean Howells and the fictional reconstruction of a vanished world by Henry Roth.
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1995
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A new version of a classic work on France's controversial writer, including selections from Hindus's extensive correspondence and meetings with C line during his postwar exile in Denmark.
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1997
Milton Hindus was born in the Bronx, New York City on August 26, 1916, into the family of Meyer and Minnie (Slutsky) Hindus, and grew up in Brooklyn.
Milton entered the City College of New York in Manhattan at the early age of fifteen and graduated with his Bachelor of Arts degree with Special Honors in Literature in 1936, at the age of nineteen. He received his Master's degree in 1938 from the same school. After that Hindus completed additional graduate work at Columbia University (1938 - 1939) and the University of Chicago (1947 - 1948).
After Hindus completed additional graduate work at Columbia University and the University of Chicago, he taught at the University of Chicago in the capacity of assistant professor. Hindus came to Brandeis in 1948 upon leaving Chicago and was one of the thirteen founding faculty members of Brandeis University. He stayed at Brandeis throughout his career and taught for 33 years during 1948 - 1981 before retiring as the Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities.
From 1965 to 1967 he was the occupant of the Peter and Elizabeth Wolkenstein Chair in English and American Literature at Brandeis. He served as Chairman of the Jewish Faculty Group of Greater Boston. As an educator, Hindus also taught summer sessions at NYU, CUNY, and UCLA and conducted study groups with the Brandeis University National Women's Committee on the subjects of literature and Jewish culture. He was deeply committed to education and considered the university to be a place of study and thought, rather than social activism of the sort that marked Brandeis in the 1960s and 1970s.
As a writer, Hindus was prolific; he published 14 books, wrote an exorbitant number of reviews, and contributed to reference works in Germany, Israel, England, and the United States. He wrote his famous book "The Crippled Giant", which details his meeting with the then-exiled French novelist and anti-semite pamphleteer Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Numerous editions of "The Crippled Giant" were subsequently released, among them was the 1986 edition which also included selections of Hindus's correspondence with Celine.
Some of his other notable publications include: "The Proustian Vision" (1954), "F. Scott Fitzgerald: An Introduction and Interpretation" (1967), "The Old East Side" (1969), "A World at Twilight" (1971), and "Charles Reznikoff" (1977). His edited volume on "Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: One Hundred Years After" (1955) won the Walt Whitman Prize from The Poetry Society of America. Hindus has also served as an editor of the sixteen-volume "Encyclopaedia Judaica" (1972).
Hindus was a regular book reviewer for The New York Herald Tribune from 1941 to 1943, and he also wrote reviews for various journals devoted to the review of recent publications, such as The New Boston, and the Kenyon and Sewanee Reviews. He contributed literary reviews and essays for general interest publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The Chicago Sunday Tribune, and The New York Times Book Review. In addition, Hindus' great interest in Jewish literature and various aspects of Jewish culture and history led him to write for a great variety of Jewish-related journals such as The Chicago Jewish Forum, Midstream, The Jewish Frontier, and Commentary.
Being an occasional writer of fiction as well as poetry (a slim volume of poems, entitled "The Broken Music-Box", was published by the Menard Press in 1980), Hindus was responsible for bringing a diverse group of literary stars to the Brandeis campus, among them, Saul Bellow, e.e. cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Dylan Thomas, and William Carlos Williams. Hindus was also an active participant in the lecture circuit and gave several presentations and talks in Jerusalem, as well as various cities in the United States and Canada, both for academic bodies as well as private organizations.
Although Hindus is best known for his numerous books and written work, he was also deeply interested in music, published a classical song, "An Evening Song", and wrote the lyrics for a Broadway musical revue. Milton Hindus passed away on May 28, 1998.
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1971
Milton married Eva Tenenbaum on August 30, 1942 and they had a daughter, Myra Gladys Hindus.