Irving Howe (1920 – 1993), was born Irving Horenstein in New York, the son of immigrants who ran a small grocery store that went out of business during the Great Depression. 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... The Great Depression was an economic downturn which started in 1929 (although its effects were not fully felt until late 1930) and lasted through most of the 1930s. ...

Howe graduated from City College in 1940. He entered radical politics as a member of the Young People's Socialist League and through it graduated to Max Shachtman's Workers Party and after 1948 the Independent Socialist League of which he was a central leader. He then left the ISL to become the founding editor of Dissent magazine. He also co-founded the Democratic Socialists of America. He was the Distinguished Professor of Literature, City University of New York (CUNY) and a noted editor of Yiddish literature who discovered the author Isaac Bashevis Singer for an English-speaking audience. Howe is regarded as one of the "New York Intellectuals". He wrote an autobiography A Margin of Hope (1982 ISBN 0-15-157138-4) as well as many other works, such as World of Our Fathers ISBN 0-8052-0928-X and Socialism and America. The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as City) is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... YPSLs Logo The Young Peoples Socialist League (YPSL) is a democratic socialist youth group originally affiliated with the Socialist Party of America. ... Max Shachtman (September 10, 1904 - November 4, 1972) was an American Marxist theorist. ... The Workers Party was a Trotskyist group in the United States. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Workers Party was a Trotskyist group in the United States. ... Dissent Magazine is a left-wing magazine that was started in 1954 by Irving Howe and Lewis Coser. ... Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International, a federation of socialist, social democratic and labour parties and organizations. ... The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym: IPA pronunciation: ), is the public university system of New York City. ... The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym usually pronounced kyoo-nee or coo-nee), located in New York City, is the largest urban university in the United States, with more than 208,000 enrolled in degree programs and another 208,000 enrolled in adult and continuing education courses at... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The New York Intellectuals were a group of American writers and literary critics who advocated left-wing, anti-Stalinist political ideas in the mid-20th century. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Quotes

• The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
• These people don't want to take over the government; they just want to take over the English Department

External links

• from The New York Intellectuals, by Alan M. Wald
• Arguing the World a PBS documentary
• Irving Howe at the Internet Movie Database