Irving Howe
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American writer, literary and social critic and socialist activist
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- Bachelors English City College of New York
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Irving Howe was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America. Early years Howe was born as Irving Horenstein in The Bronx, New York. He was the son of Jewish immigrants from Bessarabia, Nettie and David Horenstein, who ran a small grocery store that went out of business during the Great Depression. His father became a peddler and eventually a presser in a dress factory. His mother was an operator in the dress trade.
Irving Howe's Published Works
Published Works
- World of Our Fathers (1976) (232)
- Politics and the Novel (1957) (211)
- Beyond the welfare state (1982) (190)
- The American Communist Party: A Critical History (1974) (51)
- The UAW and Walter Reuther (1949) (50)
- A margin of hope: An intellectual autobiography (1982) (49)
- Mass Culture : The Popular Arts in America (1957) (40)
- World of our fathers : the journey of the East European Jews to America and the life they found and made there (2000) (38)
- Socialism and America (1985) (37)
- The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse (1987) (35)
- The idea of the modern in literature and the arts (1968) (34)
- William Faulkner: A Critical Study (1952) (34)
- The American Communist Party: A Critical History (1919-1957) (1959) (30)
- Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticism (1949) (29)
- A Treasury of Yiddish stories (1954) (29)
- The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter of New York (1966) (26)
- Decline of the new (1970) (26)
- Selected Writings: 1950-1990 (1990) (24)
- The legacy of Jewish migration : 1881 and its impact (1983) (21)
- Edith Wharton : a collection of critical essays (1962) (21)
- A Treasury of Yiddish Poetry (1969) (20)
- Getting Comfortable in New York: The American-Jewish Home, 1880-1950 (1991) (19)
- In dreams begin responsibilities and other stories (1978) (15)
- The new conservatives : a critique from the left (1975) (14)
- Essential works of socialism (1976) (14)
- Jewish-American stories (1977) (13)
- The Essence of Judaism (1948) (13)
- Beyond the new left (1970) (13)
- How we lived : a documentary history of immigrant Jews in America, 1880-1930 (1981) (12)
- 1984 Revisited: Totalitarianism in Our Century (1983) (12)
- The American Newness: Culture and Politics in the Age of Emerson (1986) (12)
- The immigrant Jews of New York, 1881 to the present (1976) (12)
- A critic's notebook (1994) (10)
- The critical point, on literature and culture (1973) (9)
- Short shorts : an anthology of the shortest stories (1982) (9)
- Steady Work: Essays in the Politics of Democratic Radicalism, 1953-1966 (1966) (9)
- Celebrations and attacks: Thirty years of literary and cultural commentary (1979) (7)
- The world of the blue-collar worker (1972) (7)
- T. E. Lawrence: The Problem of Heroism (1962) (6)
- The Portable Kipling (1982) (6)
- Alternatives, proposals for America from the democratic left (1984) (6)
- Poverty : views from the left (1968) (6)
- Modern literary criticism : an anthology (1959) (6)
- Ashes out of hope : fiction by Soviet-Yiddish writers (1978) (6)
- Voices from the Yiddish : essays, memoirs, diaries (1972) (5)
- The New Conservatives: A Critique from the Left. (1975) (5)
- Democratic socialism : a short survey (1967) (5)
- The Southern Myth and William Faulkner (1951) (4)
- The American Communist Party: A Critical History (1919-1957). (1959) (4)
- The basic writings of Trotsky (1964) (4)
- A dissenter's guide to foreign policy (1968) (4)
- We Lived There Too: In Their Own Words and Pictures Pioneer Jews and the Westward Movement of America 1630-1930 (1984) (4)
- A handbook of socialist thought (1972) (4)
- A Note on Hardy's Stories (1966) (3)
- The Content of the Curriculum: Two Views: The Value of the Canon. (1991) (3)
- The radical papers (1966) (3)
- The seventies: problems and proposals (1972) (3)
- Revolution at Berkeley : the crisis in American education (1965) (2)
- Let the Day Perish (1985) (2)
- Voices of dissent : a collection of articles from Dissent Magazine (1958) (1)
- Israel, The Arabs and The Middle East (1972) (1)
- The radical imagination : an anthology from Dissent Magazine (1967) (1)
- Howe on Hardy's Art@@@Thomas Hardy (1969) (1)
- The "Second Generation" (1959) (1)
- The Lyric Poems (1985) (1)
- Living with Kampf and Schlaff: Literary Tradition and Mass Education. (1973) (1)
- Background and Profile (1985) (1)
- Jewish Immigrant Artists. (1976) (1)
- The Radical Papers-Essays in Democratic Socialism (1966) (1)
- Notes on Here and Now (1973) (1)
- Anti‐Communism and Labor History (1975) (1)
- Turgenev: The Virtues of Hesitation (1956) (1)
- Hawthorne Centenary Essays. (1965) (1)
- Classics of modern fiction;: Ten short novels (1972) (0)
- Sherwood Anderson.@@@Sherwood Anderson: His Life and Work. (1951) (0)
- Fiction as experience : an anthology (1979) (0)
- After Turmoil, After Torpor. (1975) (0)
- Entertainments and Digressions (1985) (0)
- The American Communist Party, a Critical History (1919-1957) (1959) (0)
- The connoisseur of disappointment (1993) (0)
- Selected short stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer (1966) (0)
- Voices of Dissent (1960) (0)
- Two Liberals, One Aesthete (1957) (0)
- Three American Writers (1951) (0)
- EMERSON AND HAWTHORNE (1986) (0)
- Anthologies of Shorter Fiction (1969) (0)
- Time and Time Again@@@Artworks and Packages@@@Culture Gulch@@@Pop Art Redefined@@@Art in the Age of Risk@@@The Art of Time@@@The Idea of the Modern in Literature and the Arts@@@The Third Theatre@@@The Cult of Art (1971) (0)
- DISCIPLES AND CRITICS (1986) (0)
- REPLY TO MR. PRICKETT (1976) (0)
- Editor's page (1938) (0)
- Everyone's Miscellany (1964) (0)
- What recent books have we overlooked (1974) (0)
- The Opacity of Fiction (1967) (0)
- Life in a Sect (1982) (0)
- The U.A.W. and Walter Reuther. (1950) (0)
- Freedom and the Ashcan of History (1959) (1969) (0)
- Yiddish stories, old and new (1974) (0)
- The literature of America (1971) (0)
- America, The Country and the Myth (1955) (0)
- A Revival of Yiddish Verse: Two New Anthologies (1989) (0)
- Hazards to 131-I estimation in thimerosal preserved milk. (1967) (0)
- The World of the Blue-Collar Worker.@@@Blue-Collar Workers: A Symposium on Middle America.@@@Blue Collars and Hard Hats.@@@Where Have All the Robots Gone? (1974) (0)
- The World of William Faulkner.@@@William Faulkner: A Critical Study. (1953) (0)
- THE LITERARY LEGACY (1986) (0)
- The Literature of America: Nineteenth Century (1970) (0)
- Heroes and Humble Servants (1987) (0)
- The World of Wessex (1985) (0)
- The Struggles of Men (1985) (0)
- Nature and Vision: Or Dubious Antithesis (1972) (0)
- Comic Fiction, Middle Age, Short Stories (1985) (0)
- An Iliad of Europe (1985) (0)
- Classics of modern fiction : eight short novels (1968) (0)
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