The New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond: Exploring Liberal Humanism, Jewish Identity, and the American Protest Tradition

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments Special thanks to Susanne Klingenstein for her many useful suggestions and extensive editing help. It is doubtful that this volume would have been completed without her. Thanks also to Morris Dickstein, Ilan Stavans, and John Rodden for their commitment to and help with this project. The following essays in this volume were originally printed in a special Shofar issue on the New York Intellectuals (21, no. 3 [Spring 2003]), some in shorter form: Nathan Abrams, “‘A Profoundly Hegemonic Moment’: Demythologizing the Cold War New York Jewish Intellectuals.” Eugene Goodheart, “Jew d’Esprit.” Michael Kimmage, “Lionel Trilling’s The Middle of the Journey and the Complicated Origins of the Neoconservative Movement.” Susanne Klingenstein, “Town Whores into Warmongers: The Ascent of the Neoconservatives and the Revival of Anti-Jewish Rhetoric in American Public Discourse, 1986–2006.” Klingenstein’s essay in particular has been greatly expanded for this volume. Mark Krupnick, “Lionel Trilling and the Deep Places of the Imagination.” Daniel Schwarz, “Eating Kosher Ivy: Jews as Literary Intellectuals.” Ilan Stavans and Morris Dickstein, “Nostalgia and Recognition: Ilan Stavans and Morris Dickstein in Conversation.” Versions of Mark Krupnick’s “Jewish Intellectuals and the Deep Places of the Imagination” appeared in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies (21, no. 3 [2003], pp. 29–47) and in Krupnick’s book Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination, ed. Jean K. Carney and Mark Shechner (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005). A version of Mark Shechner’s “Mark Krupnick and Lionel Trilling: Anxiety and Influence” appeared in Krupnick’s book Jewish Writing and the Deep Places Morris_FINAL.indb ix Morris_FINAL.indb ix 9/25/2008 8:13:34 AM 9/25/2008 8:13:34 AM of the Imagination, ed. Jean K. Carney and Mark Shechner (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005). John Rodden’s “Memorial for a Revolutionist: Dwight Macdonald, ‘A Critical American’” was originally published in Society (44, no. 5 [September, 2007], pp. 51–61). John Rodden’s “Irving Howe: Triple Thinker” was originally published in Irving Howe and the Critics: Celebrations and Attacks, ed. John Rodden, pp. 1–13 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005). x ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Morris_FINAL.indb x Morris_FINAL.indb x 9/25/2008 8:13:34 AM 9/25/2008 8:13:34 AM ...