In “Write Like a Man,” Ronnie A. Grinberg examines the path that thinkers on the left and right followed as they trained themselves to fight with words.
There are intellectual histories that tell us about ideas, and biographies that tell us about the people behind those ideas. In “,” Ronnie A. Grinberg has given us both: a history of a circle of influential thinkers in the mid-20th century whose ideas shaped the United States — and whose fraught understandings of their own Jewishness and masculinity formed those ideas.
and Partisan Review and Commentary, where establishing Jewish anti-communism and Jewish masculinity were entwined goals. Ultimately, she seeks to show how “this ideology of secular Jewish masculinity extended beyond the confines of this milieu to shape American intellectual and political life more broadly.”
But what does that mean? What did “that crowd” consider writing like a man? Muscular modes of masculinity were largely unavailable to Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a time when European stereotypes presented Jewish men as weak and effeminate.
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