Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- The Program in Jewish Culture and Society
- Location
- Lucy Ellis Lounge (LCLB 1080), 707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
- Date
- Sep 8, 2025 12:00 pm
- Speaker
- Ronnie Grinberg, University of Oklahoma
- Cost
- Free and open to the public
- Contact
- Brett Kaplan
- bakaplan@illinois.edu
- Views
- 61
"Write Like a Man" examines how masculinity and Jewishness were linked in the minds of the New York intellectuals. Men and women, Jews and non-Jews in the group, all embraced a secular Jewish machismo that at its core prized verbal combativeness, polemical aggression, and an unflinching style of argumentation. This understanding of masculinity was an outsider stance when it first emerged in the 1930s. But in the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country, bringing their fractious masculinity to the mainstream of American life.
Light lunch will be provided.