ZIONISM
Jews worldwide grapple with issues—anti-Semitism, assimilation, secularism, and more.
continue readingPHILIP RAHV’S JEWISH STORY MATTERS TODAY
Philip Rahv, the storied editor of Partisan Review, belonged to “the world of our fathers,” to use the title of Irving Howe’s magisterial study of Eastern European Jews in America. From our current perspective, it’s more like the world of…
continue readingINTERPRETING THE COVER OF THE SECULAR RABBI
Proximity to water is an appropriate way to view Philip Rahv, an immigrant who crossed the Atlantic at age 14 to reach US soil; then several years later was brought to Palestine by his mother, returning alone to resettle permanently…
continue readingMARC CHAGALL AND PARTISAN REVIEW
Marc Chagall was not religious, the images of rabbis in his work notwithstanding. Some twenty years older than Philip Rahv, he too was born in Russia, Vitebsk in his case. He left Russia for Paris in 1922, the same year…
continue readingImmigrants, Then and Now
Philip Rahv realized what might be called the American dream story for immigrants. But things were different then. He appeared on the New York intellectual scene when Marxist philosophy seemed to provide answers to an America visibly weakened by the…
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