- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction: A Voice Still Heard
- This Age of Conformity {1954}
- Review of The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett {1954}
- The Stories of Bernard Malamud {1958}
- Doris Lessing: No Compromise, No Happiness {1963}
- Life Never Let Up: Review of Call It Sleep {1964}
- New Styles in “Leftism” {1965}
- George Orwell: “As the Bones Know” {1968}
- The New York Intellectuals {1969}
- A Grave and Solitary Voice: An Appreciation of Edwin Arlington Robinson {1970}
- What's the Trouble? Social Crisis, Crisis of Civilization, or Both {1971}
- The City in Literature {1971}
- Tribune of Socialism: Norman Thomas {1976}
- Strangers {1977}
- Introduction: Twenty-five Years of Dissent {1979}
- Introduction: The Best of Sholom Aleichem, with Ruth Wisse {1979}
- Mission from Japan: Review of The Samurai {1982}
- Absalom in Israel: Review of Past Continuous {1985}
- Why Has Socialism Failed in America? {1985}
- Writing and the Holocaust {1986}
- Reaganism: The Spirit of the Times {1986}
- Two Cheers for Utopia {1993}
- The Road Leads Far Away: Review of A Surplus of Memory {1993}
- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf {1994}
- Dickens: Three Notes {1994}
- Tolstoy: Did Anna Have to Die?{1994}
- Reflection on the Death of My Father {1982}
- From the Thirties to the Rise of Neoconservatism: Interview with Stephen Lewis {1983}
- Sources
Absalom in Israel: Review of Past Continuous {1985}
Absalom in Israel: Review of Past Continuous {1985}
- Chapter:
- (p.241) Absalom in Israel: Review of Past Continuous {1985}
- Source:
- A Voice Still Heard
- Author(s):
Irving Howe
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter presents Irving Howe's 1985 review of Past Continuous, a novel by by Israeli author Yaakov Shabtai. The book tells the story of three friends in Tel Aviv during the 1970s and the personal loss they felt. Howe compares the atttitudes of the younger characters with those of the older ones with respect to subjects such as socialism, religious Jews, and Israel.
Keywords: novel, Irving Howe, Past Continuous, Yaakov Shabtai, Tel Aviv, personal loss, socialism, Jews, Israel
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction: A Voice Still Heard
- This Age of Conformity {1954}
- Review of The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett {1954}
- The Stories of Bernard Malamud {1958}
- Doris Lessing: No Compromise, No Happiness {1963}
- Life Never Let Up: Review of Call It Sleep {1964}
- New Styles in “Leftism” {1965}
- George Orwell: “As the Bones Know” {1968}
- The New York Intellectuals {1969}
- A Grave and Solitary Voice: An Appreciation of Edwin Arlington Robinson {1970}
- What's the Trouble? Social Crisis, Crisis of Civilization, or Both {1971}
- The City in Literature {1971}
- Tribune of Socialism: Norman Thomas {1976}
- Strangers {1977}
- Introduction: Twenty-five Years of Dissent {1979}
- Introduction: The Best of Sholom Aleichem, with Ruth Wisse {1979}
- Mission from Japan: Review of The Samurai {1982}
- Absalom in Israel: Review of Past Continuous {1985}
- Why Has Socialism Failed in America? {1985}
- Writing and the Holocaust {1986}
- Reaganism: The Spirit of the Times {1986}
- Two Cheers for Utopia {1993}
- The Road Leads Far Away: Review of A Surplus of Memory {1993}
- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf {1994}
- Dickens: Three Notes {1994}
- Tolstoy: Did Anna Have to Die?{1994}
- Reflection on the Death of My Father {1982}
- From the Thirties to the Rise of Neoconservatism: Interview with Stephen Lewis {1983}
- Sources
