The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals

Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the late thirties and forties.

And yet the New York Jewish intellectual community was far larger and more diverse than is commonly thought. In The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals we find a group of thinkers who may not have had widespread celebrity status but who fostered a real sense of community within the Jewish world in these troubled times. What unified these men and women was their commitment and allegiance to the Jewish people.

Here we find Hayim Greenberg, Henry Hurwitz, Marie Syrkin, Maurice Samuel, Ben Halperin, Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, Morris Raphael Cohen, Ludwig Lewisohn, Milton Steinberg, Will Herberg, A. M. Klein, and Mordecai Kaplan, and many others. Divided into 3 sections--Opinion Makers, Men of Letters, and Spiritual Leaders--the book will be of particular interest to students and others interested in Jewish studies, American intellectual history, as well as history of the 30s and 40s.

About the author

Carole S Kessner

Summary

These essays discuss members of the "other" New York Jewish Intellectuals, men and women who lived in New York during the 1930s and 40s, and who wrote and worked in a different intellectual circle from the one inhabited by those known as the New York Jewish Intellectuals.

Product details

• Authors: Hamza Alavi, Carole S Kessner, Carole S. Kessner
• Assisted by: Carole S. Kessner (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1994
• EAN: 9780814746608
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-4660-8
• No. of pages: 394
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 227 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 550 g
• Series: Reappraisals in Jewish Social; Reappraisals in Jewish Social; Reappraisals in Jewish Social & Intellectual History; Reappraisals Jewish Social History; Reappraisals Jewish Social His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education