The World of I.L. Peretz by Irving Howe It is customary to speak of three figures -Mendele Mokher Sforim, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz-as the founders of…
Reading Lionel Trilling by Irving Howe The Italian novelist Ignazio Silone once remarked that most writers keep telling the same story over and over again: it…
Philip Roth Reconsidered by Irving Howe When Philip Roth published his collection of stories, "Goodbye, Columbus," in 1959, the book was generously praised and I was…
In Bluebeard’s Castle, by George Steiner by Irving Howe A phalanx of crucial topics, a tone of high-church gravity, a light sprinkle of multilingual erudition, a genteel stab at…
Journey of a Poet by Irving Howe Exactly fifty-two years ago Jacob Glatstein published a sparkling piece of impudence called "A Shnel-Loif iber der Idisher Poezie" (roughly,…
Jews and Blacks, by Ben Halpern by Irving Howe Ben Halpern, a gifted intellectual spokesman in this country for Labor Zionism, has written a book that reads with difficulty,…
The City in Literature by Irving Howe Simplicity, at least in literature, is a complex idea. Pastoral poetry, which has been written for more than two thousand…
Class Struggle in the Pale, by Ezra Mendelsohn by Irving Howe Shortly after the Second World War, perhaps in response to the fact that the world of the East European Jews…
The Education of Abraham Cahan, translated by Leon Stein, Abraham P. Conan, and Lynn Davison; The Downtown Jews, by Ronald Sande by Irving Howe In the world of our fathers Abraham Cahan was a formidable presence.
I. The New York Intellectuals by Irving Howe Irving Howe's article, "The New York Intellectuals: A Chronicle and a Critique," has so many good things in it that…
The New York Intellectuals: A Chronicle & A Critique by Irving Howe WE DO NOT YET have a full-scale history of intellectuals in the United States, but when that book comes to…
The Culture of Modernism by Irving Howe In the past hundred years we have had a special kind of literature. We call it modern and distinguish it…
