Oral history interview with Lionel Abel, 1992
Oral history interview with Lionel Abel, 1992
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- Name
- Abel, Lionel (Interviewee)
- Dorman, Joseph, 1958- (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Lionel Abel, 1992
- Abstract
- Childhood, Joplin, MO, Roanoke, VA, Niagara Falls, NY; father's vocation as rabbi, muted sense of Jewish identity; University of North Carolina; Move to Greenwich Village 1929, intellectual life of "Village," Romany Marie’s, bohemian tradition of Village; Works Projects Administration (WPA); New York in the 1930s; radicalism, marches, Socialist Party, politics, sectarianism, stature of Leon Trotsky among American intellectuals; Partisan Review, evaluation of; Communist Party (US), World War II; post-war intellectual trends, modernism, New York as art center, role of intellectuals in public life, failure of the organized left; McCarthyism; commentary on idea of "New York intellectuals"
- Collection Name
- Arguing the World oral history collection
- Subjects
- New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century; Abel, Lionel
- Format
- oral histories; video recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1992
- Note (Biographical)
- Author and critic
- Note
- Interviewed by Joseph Dorman on November 20, 1992
- Note (Provenance)
- Joseph Dorman, Gift 1998
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 15171590
- Also In
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-zjk1-ed23
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.