Irving Howe (1920-1993) played a pivotal role in American intellectual life for over five decades, from the 1940s to the 1990s. Howe also won acclaim for his prodigious output of illuminating essays on American culture. He was the founding editor of Dissent, the journal he edited for nearly forty years.
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World. This is a 'brilliant' account of their... SEE MORE