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A Voice Still Heard

Selected Essays of Irving Howe

By: Irving Howe

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A Voice Still Heard

Selected Essays of Irving Howe

By: Irving Howe

Man of letters, political critic, public intellectual, Irving Howe was one of America’s most exemplary and embattled writers. Since his death in 1993 at age 72, Howe’s work and his personal example of commitment to high principle, both literary and political, have had a vigorous afterlife. This posthumous and capacious collection includes twenty-six essays that originally appeared in such publications as the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and the Nation. Taken together, they reveal the depth and breadth of Howe’s enthusiasms and range over politics, literature, Judaism, and the tumults of American society. A Voice Still Heard is essential to the understanding of the passionate and skeptical spirit of this lucid writer. The book forms a bridge between the two parallel enterprises of culture and politics. It shows how politics justifies itself by culture, and how the latter prompts the former. Howe’s voice is ever sharp, relentless, often scathingly funny, revealing Howe as that rarest of critics—a real reader and writer, one whose clarity of style is a result of his disciplined and candid mind.

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Yale University Press

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0300210582

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9780300210583

World of Our Fathers

The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made

By: Irving Howe

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World of Our Fathers

The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made

By: Irving Howe

The National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling history of Yiddish-speaking immigrants on the Lower East Side and beyond. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World. This is a “brilliant” account of their stories (The New York Times). Though some moved on to Philadelphia, Chicago, and other points west, many of these new citizens settled in New York City, especially in Manhattan’s teeming tenements. Like others before and after, they struggled to hold on to the culture and community they brought from their homelands, all the while striving to escape oppression and find opportunity. They faced poverty and crime, but also experienced the excitement of freedom and previously unimaginable possibilities. Over the course of decades, from the 1880s to the 1920s, they were assimilated into the great melting pot as the Yiddish language slowly gave way to English; work was found in sweatshops; children were sent to both religious and secular schools; and, for the lucky ones, the American dream was attained—if not in the first generation, then by the second or third. Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, World of Our Fathers explores the many aspects of this time and place in history, from the political to the cultural. In this compelling American story, Irving Howe addresses everything from the story of socialism, the hardships of the ghetto, and the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that killed scores of garment workers to the “Borscht Belt” resorts of the Catskills in colorful and dramatic detail. Both meticulously researched and lively, it is “a stirring evocation of the adventure and trauma of migration” (Newsweek).

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798

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Open Road Media

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1504047559

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9781504047555

Politics and the Intellectual

Conversations with Irving Howe

By: Irving Howe

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Politics and the Intellectual

Conversations with Irving Howe

By: Irving Howe

A compilation of Irving Howe's interviews during the last fifteen years of his life, this book represents what could be viewed as the sequel to Howe's intellectual autobiography, A Margin of Hope, which took the story of his life only up to the late 1970s. Many of these interviews were never published and have existed only as personal tapes in the hands of such scholars and activists as Todd Gitlin and Maurice Isserman. Others were originally published in such venues as The New York Times, The Jerusalem Post, and the PBS documentary Arguing the World. Howe never organized his thoughts about the last fifteen years of his life, during which he gained renown for World of Our Fathers, received a MacArthur Fellowship, and became widely regarded as the leading left-liberal intellectual in the U.S. and, arguably, the leading literary critic in America following the deaths of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson. During this time, Howe also struggled to redefine the American Left in an environment that discounted and marginalized it. Indeed, these interviews may have particular significance today, a period of new opportunities for the liberal Left, yet one in which it struggles to construct some coherent identity and compelling program. The editors worked with the full cooperation of Howe's family. His daughter, Nina, contributed an afterword and provided a number of illustrations and photos that have never before appeared in print. --Book Jacket.

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Purdue University Press

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1557535515

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9781557535511

A Margin of Hope

An Intellectual Autobiography

By: Irving Howe

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A Margin of Hope

An Intellectual Autobiography

By: Irving Howe

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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376

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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0156572451

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9780156572453

An American Tragedy

By: Theodore Dreiser

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An American Tragedy

By: Theodore Dreiser

A tremendous best-seller when it was published in 1925,

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New Amer Library

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0451524659

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9780451524652

Politics and the Intellectual

Conversations with Irving Howe

By: Irving Howe

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Conversations with Irving Howe

By: Irving Howe

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The Life Of George Washington, Vol. 2

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By: Washington Irving

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The Life Of George Washington, Vol. 2

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By: Washington Irving

The Life Of George Washington" is a monumental work on the life of one of the most famous American presidents. Originally published in five volumes between 1853 and 1859, it is a treasure chest of information on Washington and the Civil War. This work is presumeably the most intimate and fascinating biography of a man who worked his way from an Army commander to the first President of the United States. This is volume two out of five.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849642178

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9783849642174

None Is Too Many

Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933–1948

By: Irving Abella,Harold Troper

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None Is Too Many

Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933–1948

By: Irving Abella,Harold Troper

Today, we think of Canada as a compassionate, open country to which refugees from other countries have always been welcome. However, between the years 1933 and 1948, when the Jews of Europe were looking for a place of refuge from Nazi persecution, Canada refused to offer aid, let alone sanctuary, to those in fear for their lives. Rigorously documented and brilliantly researched, None Is Too Many tells the story of Canada’s response to the plight of European Jews during the Nazi era and its immediate aftermath, exploring why and how Canada turned its back and hardened its heart against the entry of Jewish refugees. Recounting a shameful period in Canadian history, Irving Abella and Harold Troper trace the origins and results of Canadian immigration policies towards Jews and conclusively demonstrate that the forces against admitting them were pervasive and rooted in antisemitism. First published in 1983, None Is Too Many has become one of the most significant books ever published in Canada. This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates the book’s ongoing impact on public discourse, generating debate on ethics and morality in government, the workings of Canadian immigration and refugee policy, the responsibility of bystanders, righting historical wrongs, and the historian as witness. Above all, the reader is asked: "What kind of Canada do we want to be?" This new anniversary edition features a foreword by Richard Menkis on the impact the book made when it was first published and an afterword by David Koffman explaining why the book remains critical today.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487554419

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9781487554415

Book's by Irving Howe

A Voice Still Heard

A Voice Still Heard

World of Our Fathers

World of Our Fathers

Politics and the Intellectual

Politics and the Intellectual

A Margin of Hope

A Margin of Hope

An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy

Politics and the Intellectual

Politics and the Intellectual

The Life Of George Washington, Vol. 2

The Life Of George Washington, Vol. 2

None Is Too Many

None Is Too Many

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