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“In That Basic Sense the Zionists Were Right”: A Conversation with Irving Howe
By Edward GrossmanAn American Jewish intellectual considers Israel, American Jewry, and anti-Semitism.
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The Very Model of a New York Intellectual
By Ruth R. WisseAbraham Cahan was one of America's first great Jewish newspapermen, and set an example of independent thinking that the nation could sorely use today.
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Contention; or, My Disputes with Irving Howe, Yiddish Academia, and Holocaust Memorials
By Ruth R. WisseContention was so much a part of modern Yiddish culture that, in any study of that culture, it was all but taken for granted.
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Lionel Trilling’s Jewish Problem
By Edward AlexanderA leading light of the famous New York Intellectuals harbored deeply conflicted feelings about his own Jewishness, and exceptionally harsh views on Jews and Judaism.
