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vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Contributors xi Introduction 1 A Note on Organization 13 The New York Intellectuals “A Profoundly Hegemonic Moment”: Demythologizing the Cold War New York Jewish Intellectuals Nathan Abrams 17 Jew d’Esprit Eugene Goodheart 35 Eating Kosher Ivy: Jews as Literary Intellectuals Daniel R. Schwarz 44 Jewish Intellectuals and the “Deep Places of the Imagination” Mark Krupnick 60 Lionel Trilling’s The Middle of the Journey and the Complicated Origins of the Neoconservative Movement Michael Kimmage 78 Memorial for a Revolutionist: Dwight Macdonald, “A Critical American” John Rodden 94 Irving Howe: Triple Thinker John Rodden 122 Mark Krupnick and Lionel Trilling: Anxiety and Influence Mark Shechner 142 Morris_FINAL.indb vii Morris_FINAL.indb vii 9/25/2008 8:13:34 AM 9/25/2008 8:13:34 AM Discussion Forum Alan Wolfe 150 Morris Dickstein 151 Peter Novick 154 Nathan Glazer 158 Beyond What (Do?) a Transcendentalist, an Abolitionist-Women’s Rights Activist, and a Race Man Have to Do with the New York Intellectuals? Ryan Schneider 165 The Coming of Age of a Jewish Female Intellectual: Anzia Yezierska’s Red Ribbon on a White Horse Meredith Goldsmith 176 The (Not So) New Black Public Intellectuals, from the Nineties to the Oughts Ethan Goffman 194 Simply Said: Edward W. Said and the New York Intellectual Tradition Matthew Abraham 213 Feminist (and “Womanist”) as Public Intellectuals? Elfriede Jelinek and Alice Walker Tobe Levin 243 Town Whores into Warmongers: The Ascent of the Neoconservatives and the Revival of Anti-Jewish Rhetoric in American Public Discourse, 1986–2006 Susanne Klingenstein 275 Nostalgia and Recognition: Ilan Stavans and Morris Dickstein in Conversation Ilan Stavans and Morris Dickstein 312 Afterword 335 Questions for Discussion 341 Bibliography 343 Index 347 viii CONTENTS Morris_FINAL.indb viii Morris_FINAL.indb viii 9/25/2008 8:13:34 AM 9/25/2008 8:13:34 AM ...

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