New York Intellectuals

Remembering Irving Howe’s Abilities as a Literary Critic and Observer of the American Jewish Predicament

Isaac Rosenfeld and the plight of the young American Jewish intellectual.

Irving Howe

June 16 2020 12:01AM

Delmore Schwartz’s American Jewish Modernism

“In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.”

Ruth R. Wisse

June 28 2019 12:01AM

Daniel Bell: Jewish Conservative and Jewish Radical

A son’s reflection on the centennial of a great New York intellectual.

David A. Bell

May 15 2019 12:01AM

Contention; or, My Disputes with Irving Howe, Yiddish Academia, and Holocaust Memorials

Contention was so much a part of modern Yiddish culture that, in any study of that culture, it was all but taken for granted.

Ruth R. Wisse

March 27 2019 12:01AM

Lionel Trilling's Jewish Problem

A leading light of the famous New York Intellectuals harbored deeply conflicted feelings about his own Jewishness, and exceptionally harsh views on Jews and Judaism.

Edward Alexander

Oct. 11 2018 12:01AM

Overdoing Stanley Kubrick’s Jewishness

A great filmmaker, but not a New York intellectual.

Frederic Raphael

Oct. 8 2018 12:01AM

Hannah Arendt, Adolf Eichmann, and the Jews

A book that hasn’t lost its ability to appall.

Ruth Wisse

Feb. 23 2018 12:01AM

Robert Lowell’s Odd Fixation on Jews

The treacherous interplay of anti-Semitism and its sneaky twin, philo-Semitism.

Stuart Schoffman

Oct. 30 2017 12:01AM

The Making of a New York Jewish Intellectual

Making It turns 50.

Norman and John Podhoretz

May 9 2017 12:01AM