The Secular Rabbi is an intellectual biography of Philip Rahv,
co-founder of Partisan Review, which T.S. Eliot called the best
American literary periodical. It focuses on the ambivalent ties
that Rahv, a Russian immigrant, retained to his Jewish cultural
background. Drawing on letters Rahv wrote to her mother from 1928
to 1931, when he was still named Philip Greenberg, Doris Kadish
delves into the complex and enigmatic character of a man admired by
luminaries as diverse as George Orwell, Mary McCarthy, Saul Bellow,
Elizabeth Hardwick, and William Styron. Textual analyses of Rahv's
works are woven together with other disparate materials: historical
accounts, genealogical records, memoirs by Rahv's colleagues,
friends, and associates, interviews with persons who knew him, and
the abundant body of secondary scholarship devoted to the New York
intellectuals, the history of Partisan Review, and Jewish studies.
Kadish positions herself in relation to Rahv in attempting to
understand her own Jewish identity. In tracing Rahv's personal,
political, and literary evolution, Kadish sheds light on such
literary movements as modernism, proletarian literature, and Jewish
writing as well as movements that defined American political
history in the 20th century: immigration, socialism, communism,
fascism, the cold war, feminism, and the New Left.
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