David A. Horowitz

Two On the Aisle

A Judaic American Tale of Romance and Creative Dreams

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Two on the Aisle: A Judaic American Tale of Romance and Creative Dreams, is a biography of the author's parents, Nathan and Dorothy Horowitz, as well as a twentieth century American cultural history. The story describes how two offspring of Eastern European immigrants combined a struggle for material security with literary efforts that blended Yiddish-flavored humor, social compassion, religious devotion, and secular concerns with piercing meditations on life's disappointments and fragility. While sampling fragments of the couple's three-act play that enjoyed a brief run off-Broadway in the 1950s and excerpts from published poetry, short stor… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-578-42484-2
EAN: 9780578424842
Produktnummer: 30015394
Verlag: David A. Horowitz
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 212 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.2 cm 334 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 334

Über den Autor

David A. Horowitz is the author of America's Political Class under Fire: The Twentieth Century's Great Culture War (2003); The People's Voice: A Populist Cultural History of Modern America (2008); and a memoir titled Getting There: An American Cultural Odyssey (2015). He has published in The Historian, Journal of Southern History, Oregon Historical Quarterly, San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Oregonian, Back to the Bronx, and the online History News Network. A native of the West Bronx and Long Island, New York, graduate of Antioch College, and University of Minnesota PhD., he teaches U.S. cultural and political history at Portland State University and lives with his wife, Gloria E. Myers, in Portland and Arch Cape, Oregon.