New York Intellectuals
The insecurities of a Jewish intellectual.
Abraham Cahan was one of America’s first great Jewish newspapermen, and set an example of independent thinking that the nation could sorely use today.
Ruthless cosmopolitans.
Midge Decter’s legacy.
Revisiting Norman Podhoretz’s Making It.
Drawing on woke pieties, a new book considers the possibility that the anti-Semites were right.
Hilton Kramer believed art must be moral—but not political.
A “small-town boy from southeast Missouri” reads Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Isaac Rosenfeld and the plight of the young American Jewish intellectual.
“In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.”
A son’s reflection on the centennial of a great New York intellectual.
Contention was so much a part of modern Yiddish culture that, in any study of that culture, it was all but taken for granted.
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.
A great filmmaker, but not a New York intellectual.