Irving Howe (1920–1993)
Auteur de Le Monde de nos pères (L'extraordinaire odyssée des Juifs d'Europe de l'Est en Amérique)
A propos de l'auteur
Irving Howe was born in the Bronx, New York on June 11, 1920. He became a socialist at the age of 14. He graduated from City College in 1940. During World War II, he served in the Army. After the war, he began writing book reviews and essays for several magazines including Commentary, The Nation, afficher plus and Partisan Review. For four years, he earned a living writing book reviews for Time magazine. He taught English at several colleges including Brandeis University, Stanford University, Hunter College, and City University, which he retired from in 1986. In 1954, he and a group of close friends founded the radical journal Dissent. He was the editor for nearly four decades. Also in the 1950's, he met a Yiddish poet named Eliezer Greenberg and the two began a long project to translate Yiddish prose and poetry into English, eventually publishing six collections of stories, essays, and poems. He wrote several books including Decline of the New, Politics and the Novel, and an autobiography entitled A Margin of Hope. World of Our Fathers won the National Book Award in 1976. He wrote critical studies of William Faulkner and Sherwood Anderson and a biography of Leon Trotsky. He died of cardiovascular disease on May 5, 1993 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Irving Howe
Le Monde de nos pères (L'extraordinaire odyssée des Juifs d'Europe de l'Est en Amérique) (1976) 849 exemplaires
We Lived There Too: In Their Own Words and Pictures Pioneer Jews and the Westward Movement of America 1630-1930 (1984) 137 exemplaires
Classics of Modern Fiction: Ten Short Novels (2nd Ed.) (1972) — Directeur de publication — 60 exemplaires
Voices from the Yiddish : essays, memoirs, diaries (1972) — Directeur de publication — 60 exemplaires
Favorite Yiddish Stories (1992) — Directeur de publication; Directeur de publication — 56 exemplaires
Ashes Out of Hope: Fiction by Soviet-Yiddish Writers (1977) — Directeur de publication — 43 exemplaires
Classics of Modern Fiction: Twelve Short Novels (5th Ed.) (1972) — Directeur de publication — 38 exemplaires
Classics of Modern Fiction: Twelve Short Novels (4th Ed.) (1986) — Directeur de publication — 27 exemplaires
Classics of Modern Fiction: Ten Short Novels (3rd Ed.) (1980) — Directeur de publication — 25 exemplaires
Twenty-five years of Dissent : an American tradition (1979) — Directeur de publication — 10 exemplaires
Classics of Modern Fiction: Twelve Short Novels — Directeur de publication — 5 exemplaires
American Men of Letters in Five Volumes Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Henry James, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman (1921) 4 exemplaires
The Structure of Verse: Modern Essays on Prosody 2 exemplaires
Introduction to the Yiddish language 2 exemplaires
Student activism 1 exemplaire
Dissent. Fall 2009. 1989 and after. 1 exemplaire
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four : Text, Sources, Criticism — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
The Basic Writings of Trotsky 1 exemplaire
How We Lived 1880 - 1930 1 exemplaire
The Victorian Age 1 exemplaire
Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse 1 exemplaire
Classics of Modern Fiction — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Dissent, Winter 1972: Special Issue: The World of the Blue Collar Worker — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Other America: Poverty in the United States (1962) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 731 exemplaires
Selected stories (1974) — Introduction, quelques éditions; Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 62 exemplaires
Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and the Schism in the American Soul (2002) — Contributeur — 25 exemplaires
Selected Writings of Thomas Hardy, The: Stories, Poems and Essays (1966) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 7 exemplaires
Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? (Rights and Responsibilities: Communitarian Responses) (2006) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
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- Nom canonique
- Howe, Irving
- Nom légal
- Horenstein, Irving (birth name)
- Date de naissance
- 1920-06-11
- Date de décès
- 1993-05-05
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- City College of New York
- Professions
- public intellectual
teacher - Organisations
- Partisan Review
Dissent
Democratic Socialists of America
U.S. Army
Brandeis University
City University of New York (Hunter College) - Prix et distinctions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1960)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1979)
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- Membres
- 3,879
- Popularité
- #6,533
- Évaluation
- 3.9
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- ISBN
- 145
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- 2
When Eastern European Jews began departing their homelands in the late-nineteenth century, they carried with them the communitarian traditions of the shtetl. Unsurprisingly, these traditions were expressed in and as socialist politics. Much of the political--as well as social and cultural--ferment Eastern European Jews aroused occurred on the Lower East Side of Manhattan (which, after reading this book, I'll look at differently and appreciate even more). When the Williamsburg Bridge went up in 1903, connecting Delancey Street on the Lower East Side with Havemeyer Street in Brooklyn, many of these recently arrived immigrants moved across the East River to Williamsburg, where many of their descendants remain. Bernie Sanders, whose father's family perished in the Holocaust, was born in Brooklyn in 1941. He attended James Madison High School on Bedford Avenue, and there he led the track team.
Irving Howe was a lifelong socialist; the documentary film "Arguing the World" is a very nice biography of Mr. Howe and his erstwhile classmates at the City College of New York (known at one time as "the Harvard of the proletariat"), Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer and Irving Kristol. The film nicely documents the various intellectual trajectories these four sons of the Lower East Side traveled along. One of the primary themes of World of Our Fathers concerns the doctrinal squabbles among the Jewish socialists on the Lower East Side.
Along the way, Mr. Howe presents detailed and fascinating analyses of Yiddish culture and its effect on broader American culture. He does a particularly nice job of explicating Yiddish humor, and its exponents like Henny Youngman, Don Rickles and Rodney Dangerfield, and the extent to which it influenced comedians of all stripes. I found myself wondering what Irving Howe would make of latter-day borscht belt comedians like Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld.
This is an exceptional work of scholarship that it is imbued with Mr. Howe's (born, incidentally, as Irving Hohenstein) obvious affinity with and a fondness for the subject. For some reason, it took me 25 years too get around to reading this book. If the subject of the immigration of Eastern European Jews to the United States, and the influence of those new citizens on American culture and society interests you in any way, I very highly recommend this book--as well as what is arguably its companion, Our Crowd by Stephen Birmingham.
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