Does the Jew Exist? Sartre’s Morality Play about Anti-Semitism
Harold Rosenberg
1949
In considering Sartre’s conception of the Jew and his relation to anti-Semitism we must not forget that Reflections on the Jewish Question (published by Schocken as Anti-Semite and Jew) was written immediately after the downfall of the Nazis. It was a moment of intense confusion as to the meaning of the terrible events that had just taken place and…
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Creator Bio
Harold Rosenberg
Born in Brooklyn, Harold Rosenberg, art critic for The New Yorker from 1967 until his death, was himself a lifelong New Yorker. Although he began his career publishing criticism in the many Marxist journals of the 1930s, Rosenberg gradually became dissatisfied with the strictures of Marxist art theory. In the 1950s and 1960s, Rosenberg was a major proponent of abstract expressionism, championing the independence and creativity of artists such as Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky. Influenced by French existentialism and ontology, Rosenberg’s art criticism remained more popular and widely accessible than that of many of his contemporaries.