Title Creators and disturbers : reminiscences by Jewish intellectuals of New York / drawn from conversations with Bernard Rosenberg and Ernest Goldstein

Published New York : Columbia University Press, 1982

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Description viii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction I -- -- PART I. THE EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS 25 -- 1. The Yiddish Writer and His Audience 27 -- Isaac B. Singer -- 2. From a Russian Stetl to the Founding of Midstream 45 -- Shlomo Katz -- 3. The Historian of the Holocaust at YIVO 61 -- Isaiah Trunk -- 4. The Tragedy of the German Jewish Intellectual 75 -- Hans Morgenthau -- 5. TheJewish Novelist in New York-An Emigre 87 -- Soma Morgenstern -- 6. Jazz-The Jewish-Black Connection 95 -- Dan Morgenstern -- 7. The Radical Emigr6 in the Metropolis 113 -- Henry Pachter -- -- PART II. THE NEW YORK NATIVES 135 -- 8. From the Lower East Side to "Over the Rainbow" 137 -- Yip Harburg -- 9. The Intellectual and the ILGWU I55 -- Gus Tyler -- 10. The Yiddish Influence on American Theater 176 -- Harold Clurman -- 11. "New York Jew" 194 -- Alfred Kazin -- 12. The Scholar as Chancellor 210 -- Gerson Cohen -- 13. The Teaching of the Holocaust 227 -- Irving Greenberg -- -- -- -- -- 14. Psychoanalyst in New York 234 -- Joel Kovel -- 15. The Spirit of the New York Labor Movement 246 -- Victor Gotbaum -- 16. The Range of the New York Intellectual 264 -- Irving Howe -- 17. The Writer in Greenwich Village 288 -- Grace Paley -- 18. The Music of the City 299 -- Barry Brook -- 19. "The Architect from New York" 311 -- Percival Goodman -- 20. The Rabbi's Daughter as Judge and Humanist 330 -- Justine Wise Polier -- -- PART III. FROM BEYOND THE HUDSON 349 -- 21. An Activist Critic on the Upper West Side 351 -- Midge Decter -- 22. The Sociologist on the Cutting Edge 368 -- Joseph Bensman -- 23. The Educational Critic in New York 388 -- Diane Ravitch -- 24. The New York Publishing World 401 -- Ted Solotaroff -- -- Index 421 Analysis New York (City) Jews Intellectual life ca 1900-1980 Notes Includes index Subject Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography. Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life. SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108454 New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95005084 New York (N.Y.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79007751 -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005642 Genre/Form Biographies. Author Goldstein, Ernest, 1933- Rosenberg, Bernard, 1923-1996. LC no. 82004281 ISBN 0231047126

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