Claremont McKenna College

The End of Jewish Secularism

IRVING HOWE

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1987 McKenna Auditorium

The Crisis of American Liberalism

IRVING HOWE

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1987

Noted author and critic Irving Howe serves as fellow in residence at the Athenaeum from Monday, November 9, to Friday, November 13. In addition to visiting classes, Howe will make several presentations at the Athenaeum.

In 1976 Howe's World of Our Fathers (1976), "a comprehensive social and cultural history of the journey of East European Jews to America and the life they made here," won the National Book Award. A collection of Howe's essays, Socialism and America, was published in 1985. He is the editor of Dissent, and he has also written for The New York Times, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, Partisan Review and New York magazine. In addition to his work as an essayist, Howe has worked with Eliezer Greenberg in translating and editing anthologies of Yiddish stories and poetry, and he has compiled critical studies of Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, and Sherwood Anderson.

On Tuesday, November 10, Howe speaks on "The End of Jewish Secularism" at 7:00 p.m. in McKenna Auditorium. Preceding the lecture a reception and dinner will be held in the Athenaeum beginning at 5:30 p.m. On Thursday, November 12, after another 5:30 p.m. reception and dinner at the Athenaeum, Howe presents his second lecture, "The Crisis of American Liberalism," beginning at 7:00 p.m.