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B-Side Books ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 103-108
Author(s):  
Sean McCann
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2021 ◽  
pp. 117-140
Author(s):  
Doris Kadish

This chapter traces Rahv’s role in forming the canon of 20th century Jewish writing: to use his words, works by writers of Jewish descent. It considers his championing of Franz Kafka, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, and Saul Bellow. The significance of modernism, Zionism, and Yiddish in their works is foregrounded. Their stories of Jewishness are interwoven with Rahv’s to illuminate his affirmation of Jewish language and culture, which was marked, however, with ambivalence and irony. To explain Rahv’s ambivalent Jewishness in the 1940s and 50s, this chapter considers what two of his closest friends and associates had to say about him: William Barrett and Mary McCarthy, whose satirical depiction of him in the 1949 “roman à clef” The Oasis provoked Rahv to initiate a law suit. The chapter closes with reflections on what Jewishness meant in Rahv’s world and my own during the 1950s.


2021 ◽  
pp. 171-188
Author(s):  
Doris Kadish

This concluding chapter summarizes the meaning of Jewishness in Rahv’s life and work. It traces his religious attitudes back to the familial conflicts of his youth as well as to his reading of Marx. It also looks at writers whose works on Jewish issues Rahv chose to publish in Partisan Review—Jean Paul Sartre, Sidney Hook, Isaac Deutscher, and Leon Trotsky. It argues that their viewpoints approximate and illuminate what his was likely to have been regarding such issues as anti-Semitism, assimilation, Zionism, and definitions of the term Jew. It compares Rahv to current-day immigrants. It closes with conclusions regarding his inner struggles, his achievements, and his relations with women—Ethel, Mary McCarthy, and myself.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Achatz von Müler

Der Dichter Dante Alighieri als Kristallisationsfigur der Imaginationen einer grenzenlosen Moderne, in der unsere Freiheiten und Hoffnungen ebenso wurzeln wie alle Schrecken und Ängste. Dante Alighieri wurde schon von den Zeitgenossen als Visionär bewundert und gefürchtet. Er erlebte den Aufbruch Italiens in eine neue Epoche und gab dieser zugleich in seinen Briefen, philosophisch-politischen Abhandlungen sowie mit seiner monumentalen Dichtung »Die Göttliche Komödie« eine europäische Richtung. Achatz von Müller zeigt anhand von Dantes Politik-, Sprach- und Geschichtstheorie den Dichter-Philosophen als Bezugspunkt der »Moderne«. In Dantes Texten schaffen methodische Vernunft, entgrenzte Subjektivität und säkularisierte Macht wunderbare Licht- und erschreckende Missgestalten: Gleichheit, Freiheit, Sicherheit, Schönheit, doch nicht weniger Gewalt, Gier, Unterdrückung, Massenmord. Als Imaginationskünstler dieser Widersprüche wird Dante seit der Romantik immer wieder literarisch in den Blick genommen - sowohl von poetischen Kritikern der Moderne von Jorge Luis Borges bis zu Mary McCarthy als auch von Diagnostikern von Benedetto Croce bis Hannah Arendt.


2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-404
Author(s):  
Ellen McWilliams
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2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 360-373
Author(s):  
Sophia Wilson Niehaus
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