Ronnie Grinberg

Nov 7, 2024 | lilith.org | Ronnie Grinberg

The New York Intellectuals v. Women’s Liberation A new take on mid-century writing dissects the influence and power of a posse of writers—not all Jewish, or all men—who encompassed “secular Jewish machismo,” a unique combination of American protestant competitiveness, a touch of outsider’s pique and a Jewish emphasis on book-learning. And when this brand of machismo—starring writers like Norman Mailer and Philip Roth—butted heads with the nascent, powerful feminist movement?

Oct 8, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Mitchell Abidor |Ronnie Grinberg |Brianna Corley |Helen Schulman

“Ye Town Crier” (1908) | Robert Seaver / CC0 1.0 UniversalEarlier this year, the historian Ronnie Grinberg made a bit of a splash with her first book, Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals (Princeton, 2024).

Sep 24, 2024 | hnn.us | Ronnie Grinberg

Irving Howe and many other New York intellectuals believed that New Leftists, their leaders and theoreticians included, tended to lack intellectual sophistication. Specifically, most of them failed to engage robustly in an exchange of ideas. They relied too often on style rather than substance. They were immature, that is they had not won their intellectual spurs through long, hard preparation, and the rigors of verbal combat. They were, to Howe’s generation, crude adolescent boys.

Sep 24, 2024 | historynewsnetwork.org | Ronnie Grinberg

Irving Howe and many other New York intellectuals believed that New Leftists, their leaders and theoreticians included, tended to lack intellectual sophistication. Specifically, most of them failed to engage robustly in an exchange of ideas. They relied too often on style rather than substance. They were immature, that is they had not won their intellectual spurs through long, hard preparation, and the rigors of verbal combat. They were, to Howe’s generation, crude adolescent boys.

Apr 16, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Sam Adler-Bell |Matthew Sitman |Ronnie Grinberg

Matt and Sam are joined by historian Ronnie Grinberg to discuss her book "Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals."