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Loyalty to Origins
Loyalty to Origins* What you and I would like to achieve in our identity politics is purity. We don’t want to be double — or a double-crosser. We want to be single-minded. As Leo Bronstein, whom I’ve cited before in … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anne Fadiman’s The Wine Lover’s Daughter, Barbara Fisher, battle of words, British acculturation, character challenge, Clifton Fadiman, college friendships, Columbia archives, Columbia class of 1925, establishing authenticity, friends and rivals, getting each other’s number, Henry M. Rosenthal, Henry M. Rosenthal’s “Inventions”, identity ambivalence, identity loyalty, identity politics, identity purity, ignoble victories, Jewish authenticity, Jewish intensity, Jewish Theological Seminary, John Vaughan, Leo Bronstein, Lionel Trilling, Lionel Trilling/Henry Rosenthal correspondence, literary powers, living as a Jew, loyalty to origins, male friendship, male rivalry, male status, non-Jewish surnames, obsessively Jewish, one-upmanship, passionately Jewish, Sidney Hook, spiritual adventure, stylish imperturbability, talented classmates, the false and the genuine, The Menorah Journal, the name Trilling, Trilling/Rosenthal friendship, unflappable snobbishness, verbal sparring, who is more authentic, writers fictionalizing writers, writers on writers, youthful genius
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The Big City and Me
The Big City and Me I went to New York for an overnight last Thursday. This trip had been postponed for at least a year, during which I was dealing with one huge difficulty after another. Through the times and … Continue reading →
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Tagged 20th century critic, 51st Street, a writer’s honor, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Alice’s Teacup, authenticity and success, Barbara Fisher, Barnard College, biography, Cafe Sabarsky, catching spies, Columbia University class of 1925, con artist, conservationists, Diana Trilling, easy mark, embezzeler, FBI raid, feminist activists, FGM, formative experiences, Frank and Ada Graham, friend of the arts, German U-boats, German/Austrian 20th century art museum, Henry M. Rosenthal, hollow words, honor killing, ill-gotten gains, integrity, Laurin Raiken, Leo Bronstein, life savings, Lionel and Henry, Lionel Trilling, Maine people, male friendship, meaning what you say, Meyer Schapiro, mitzvah, mystically sensitive, Nazi spy, Nazi spy ring, Neue Gallerie, New York City, New York in World War II, NYU Gallatin Division, old friends, Phyllis Chesler, Phyllis Chesler’s A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches Lunatics Dykes Prodigies Warriors and Wonder Women, Phyllis Chesler’s The New Anti-Semitism, political courage, power street, Public Intellectual, reunions, righteous action, saving the earth, sense of place, short wave radio, sisterhood, street smarts, teacher/student relation, The Big City, The Country Mouse and the City Mouse, U-boats off New York, Viennese café, you can go home again, you can’t take it with you
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Men Worth Remembering
Men Worth Remembering Michael Wyschogrod was a theologian, philosopher and doer of quiet deeds of rescue for many, me included. Last Monday night, his colleagues organized a memorial meeting for him at Baruch College of The City University of New … Continue reading →
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Tagged 92nd Street Y, Abraham, apostasy, archives at Y, archivist, Authenticity, Barbara Fisher, Bernard Schwartz, bigotry, Christendom, composure, converts, courtship, deicide, duties to parents, duties to self, escape from the Nazis, essayists, ethical monotheism, falling in love, father-daughter relation, filial piety, German guilt, God's love for Jews, God's love for the Jewish people, God's reality, having time, Henry and Rachelle Rosenthal, Henry M. Rosenthal, Holocaust, imagination of the heart, impersonal love, incarnation, innocence, intellectual memoir, Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, Jewish identity, Jews for Jesus, journal keeping, life assignment, life task, life vocation, Lionel Trilling, Literary Center at Y, literary critics, living spiritually, living truthfully, loving heart, male friendship, Messianic Jews, Nazi executioners, opinion shapers, original sin, parent-child obligation, parent-child relation, passionate love, Pauline theology, personal equilibrium, personal genius, personal love, philosophy students, Poetry Center at Y, politics of religion, popes, practical realism, Presbyterians, realism, sense of reality, sense of self, Shoah, spirituality, survivor's testimony, survivor's witness, The Jewish people, The White Rose, theology of contempt, Trilling biographer, Trinitarian doctrine
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