A Treasury of Yiddish Stories

Irving Howe

Eliezer Greenberg

1953

A Treasury of Yiddish Stories

Modern Yiddish literature focuses upon the shtetl during its last tremor of self-awareness, the historical moment when it is still coherent and self-contained but already under fierce assault from the outer world. Between language and milieu there is a curious, ambivalent relationship: the one seems to batten on the…

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Irving Howe

Howe, 1920–1993

A prominent literary critic and lifelong leftist, Irving Howe was the quintessential New York intellectual, a label he popularized in the 1960s. Born in the Bronx, New York, he turned a quarrelsome temperament into a vocation, writing and editing intellectual journals, criticizing capitalism, and championing democratic socialism. After rejecting Judaism as an adolescent, he changed course dramatically, immersing himself in Yiddish literature and the world of East European Jewish immigrants. Howe lectured widely and taught literature passionately. Dissent, the journal he founded and edited, survived him, continuing his legacy.

Eliezer Greenberg

Greenberg, 1896–1977

A prominent literary critic and lifelong leftist, Irving Howe was the quintessential New York intellectual, a label he popularized in the 1960s. Born in the Bronx, New York, he turned a quarrelsome temperament into a vocation, writing for and editing intellectual journals, including Partisan Review, Commentary, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books, criticizing capitalism and championing democratic socialism. After rejecting Judaism as an adolescent, he changed course dramatically, immersing himself in Yiddish literature and the world of East European Jewish immigrants. Howe lectured widely and taught literature passionately. Dissent, the journal he founded and edited for four decades, survived him, continuing his legacy.

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A Treasury of Yiddish Stories