The Secular Rabbi: Philip Rahv and Partisan Review

Author:   Doris Kadish
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
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9781837641420


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   02 February 2024
Format:   Paperback
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The Secular Rabbi is an intellectual biography of Philip Rahv, co-founder of Partisan Review, which T.S. Eliot called the best American literary periodical. It focuses on the ambivalent ties that Rahv, a Russian immigrant, retained to his Jewish cultural background. Drawing on letters Rahv wrote to her mother from 1928 to 1931, when he was still named Philip Greenberg, Doris Kadish delves into the complex and enigmatic character of a man admired by luminaries as diverse as George Orwell, Mary McCarthy, Saul Bellow, Elizabeth Hardwick, and William Styron. Textual analyses of Rahv’s works are woven together with other disparate materials: historical accounts, genealogical records, memoirs by Rahv’s colleagues, friends, and associates, interviews with persons who knew him, and the abundant body of secondary scholarship devoted to the New York intellectuals, the history of Partisan Review, and Jewish studies. Kadish positions herself in relation to Rahv in attempting to understand her own Jewish identity. In tracing Rahv’s personal, political, and literary evolution, Kadish sheds light on such literary movements as modernism, proletarian literature, and Jewish writing as well as movements that defined American political history in the 20th century: immigration, socialism, communism, fascism, the cold war, feminism, and the New Left.

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Author:   Doris Kadish
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
ISBN:  

9781837641420


ISBN 10:   1837641420
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   02 February 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

LIST OF FIGURESACKNOWLEDGMENTSCAST OF CHARACTERS FOREWORDCHAPTER 1: DISCOVERIESCHAPTER 2: FROM GREENBERG TO RAHVCHAPTER 3: ROADS TO AND FROM REVOLUTIONCHAPTER 4: CRISESCHAPTER 5: CONFLICTING IDENTITIESCHAPTER 6: ENDGAMESCHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHYAPPENDICESA. THE LAST LETTERSB. TO YONAC. “PALEFACE AND REDSKIN” INDEX

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'Providing a unique personal, biographical and autobiographical lens on Philip Rahv, this book offers a fresh perspective on one of the New York Intellectuals leading members.' Professor Nathan Abrams, Bangor University, author of Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual


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Professor Doris Y. Kadish is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita, French and Women’s Studies, University of Georgia.

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