Oral history interview with Alfred Kazin, 1994

Scope and Contents

Brownsville, Brooklyn 1920s; New York 1930s and 1940s; City College of New York 1931-35; radicalism and intellectual life; career; publications; New York intellectual life, influence of Marxism, German refugees, Jewish identity, Partisan Review, little magazines, Trotsky, Holocaust; neoconservatism, limits of; McCarthyism; Black-Jewish relations; New Left

Subjects

• Dorman, Joseph, 1958- interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998--Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
• Oral histories (literary works)

Access Conditions

Copyright by Joseph Dorman