Irving Howe
Irving Howe (1920-1993) was an American literary and social critic, educator, and democratic socialist born to Jewish immigrant parents in New York City. He founded and edited the journal Dissent, won the National Book Award for World of Our Fathers (1976), a seminal work on East European Jewish immigrants, and authored influential books on literature, politics, and Yiddish culture while teaching at institutions like City University of New York.
New York City, USA
Jun 11, 1920
Literary Criticism
Social Criticism
History
A Treasury of Yiddish Poetry
The Best of Sholom Aleichem
The American Newness: Culture and Politics in the Age of Emerson
Selected Writings, 1950-1990
Thomas Hardy
World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made
Twenty-Five Years of Dissent: An American Tradition (Routledge Library Editions: Political Protest)