Irving Howe

World of Our Fathers

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America and offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York. It is useful reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, and the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New York University Press
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 165mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1474g
• ISBN-13: 9780814736852
• ISBN-10: 0814736858
• Artikelnr.: 22304936

Autorenporträt

Irving Howe (Author) Irving Howe (1920-1993) played a pivotal role in American intellectual life for over five decades, from the 1940s to the 1990s. Best known for World of Our Fathers, Howe also won acclaim for his prodigious output of illuminating essays on American culture and as an indefatigable promoter of democratic socialism. He was the founding editor of Dissent, the journal he edited for nearly forty years. Morris Dickstein (Foreword by) Morris Dickstein is Distinguished Professor of English and Theatre and Senior Fellow of the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of several books, including Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970