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Howe, Irving was born on June 11, 1920 in New York City. Son of David and Nettie (Goldman) Howe.
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A leading literary critic-and the author of World of Our Fathers-looks back on his life from the early 1930s through the 1970s. A perceptive account of Howe's intellectual growth. Index.
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A companion volume to The Liberal Papers and the Conservative Papers. The unifying purpose behind its essays is to present the world-view of American radical thinkers in the tradition of democratic socialism, and to offer concrete proposals for reform in American society.
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A new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-winning classic. Winner of the National Book Award, 1976 World of Our Fathers traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their Yiddish culture while becoming American. It is essential reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many of today's American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced, and how they experienced every aspect of immigrant life in the early part of the twentieth century. This invaluable contribution to Jewish literature and culture is now back in print in a new paperback edition, which includes a new foreword by noted author and literary critic Morris Dickstein.
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"To confront American culture is to feel oneself encircled by a thin but strong presence. I call it Emersonian, an imprecise term but one that directs us to a dominant spirit in the national experience." Thus Irving Howe, America's distinguished social critic and a longtime reader of the Sage of Concord, begins this illuminating discussion of Emerson and his disciples and doubters. What is the Emersonian spirit? What inspired it, what propelled it? And what does it mean to us today? History gave Emerson his opportunity and then took it away. Coming to manhood during the 1830s and 1840s, the time of "the newness" when Americans beheld the world with unbounded expectations, Emerson became the spokesman for the self-reliant new man he believed had arisen, ready to thrust aside mossy traditions and launch a new revolution of freewheeling thought. But the rapid pace of the American experience overtook the Emersonian vision; in the 1850s, the rising problems of slavery, a boom-and-bust economy, the vulgarity of mass culture overwhelmed the idealist. His satellite spirits wavered and shrouded the Emersonian optimism: Hawthorne, with his stories of moral breakdown; Thoreau, rooted in nature yet inclined to the cranky and fanatical; Melville, his fathomless blackness waiting beneath archetypal fables of innocence and evil also Walt Whitman, Orestes Brownson, Twain--all were influenced by, yet reacted against, the Emersonian "newness." Howe identifies three kinds of response: the literature of work (Melville and Mark Twain),the literature of Edenic fraternity (James Fenimore Cooper, Whitman, Twain again), and the literature of loss (all the post-Civil War writers). He lays before us the intellectual and personal tragedy of the first great American man of letters, yet also shows that Emerson's belief in the untapped power of free men pervades not only the lives and works of his contemporaries but is also a permanent part of the American psyche.
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It was a great adventure--the emigration in the 1880s of two million Jews from East Europe to the United States. Many settled in New York, where they attempted to maintain their own Yiddish culture even while making their way into American society. Howe tells the story of these people--from sweatshop to Hollywood studio, from yeshiva to university, every aspect of Jewish life is vividly depicted.
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It was a great adventure--the emigration in the 1880s of two million Jews from East Europe to the United States. Many settled in New York, where they attempted to maintain their own Yiddish culture even while making their way into American society. Howe tells the story of these people--from sweatshop to Hollywood studio, from yeshiva to university, every aspect of Jewish life is vividly depicted.
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( In six thoughtful, engagingly written essays, Howe surv...)
In six thoughtful, engagingly written essays, Howe surveys a movement he has known firsthand since the 1930s and reflects on its future. "Howe is a marvelously thorough and suggestive critic" (San Francisco Chronicle).
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Howe, Irving was born on June 11, 1920 in New York City. Son of David and Nettie (Goldman) Howe.
Graduate, City College of New York.
Teacher English, Brandeis U., 1953-1961; Teacher English, Stanford University, 1961-1963; Professor of English, City Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta at Hunter College, 1963-1986; Distinguished professor, City Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta at Hunter College, 1970-1986; Christian Gauss seminar chair professor, Princeton University, 1954.
(The story of over 2 million Jewish immigrants in America ...)
( In six thoughtful, engagingly written essays, Howe surv...)
( In six thoughtful, engagingly written essays, Howe surv...)
( A leading literary critic-and the author of World of Ou...)
( A leading literary critic-and the author of World of Ou...)
(It was a great adventure--the emigration in the 1880s of ...)
(It was a great adventure--the emigration in the 1880s of ...)
( "To confront American culture is to feel oneself encir...)
(Steady Work: Essays In The Politics Of Democratic Radical...)
(A companion volume to The Liberal Papers and the Conserva...)
( A new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-wi...)
( Provocative commentary by a teacher, editor, and critic. )
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Served with Army of the United States, World World War World War II.
Married Ilana Wiener. 2 children.