Louis Harap

Louis Harap (September 16, 1904-May 12, 1998) was an American writer and editor.

Biography

Harap attended Harvard University, where he was a friend of Delmore Schwartz. ^[1] He received his doctorate from Harvard in 1932 and then worked as the librarian at Harvard's Library of Philosophy and Psychology until 1939. ^[2] Harap was active in left-wing politics, organizing a group of Communist faculty members at Harvard with William T. Parry in 1937. ^[3]

He was a contributor to Science and Society and the Daily Worker . ^[4] Harap became the managing editor of the left-wing monthly The Jewish Survey in 1941. ^[5] He later became managing editor of Jewish Life from 1948 to 1957. ^[6] Harap was one of the first members of the National Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case in 1952. ^[7] In 1953, Harap testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, denouncing HUAC as anti-Semitic and arguing that Jews were treated better in the Soviet Union than in the United States. ^[8] Harap died in 1998, in Rutland, Vermont. ^[9]

Bibliography

• Social Roots of the Arts (New York: International Publishers Company, 1949)
• The Image of the Jew in American Literature: From Early Republic to Mass Immigration (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1974)
• Dramatic Encounters: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Drama, Poetry, and Humor and the Black-Jewish Literary Relationship (New York: Greenwood Press, 1987)

References

1. Phillips, Robert, ed. (1984). Letters of Delmore Schwartz. Ontario Review Press. p. 34. ISBN   9780865380448.
2. Rudich, Norman, ed. (1976). Weapons of Criticism: Marxism in America and the Literary Tradition. Ramparts Press. p. 374. ISBN   9780878670567.
3. Caute, David (1978). The Great Fear : The anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower. Simon & Schuster. p. 406. ISBN   0671248480.
4. Lopes, Paul (2002). The Rise of a Jazz Art World. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 125. ISBN   0521000394.
5. Gordon, Eric A. (1989). Mark the Music: The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 208. ISBN   0312026072.
6. Fischbach, Michael R. (2019). The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p. 185. ISBN   9781503611078.
7. Neville, John F. (1995). The Press, the Rosenbergs, and the Cold War. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers. p. 66. ISBN   0275949958.
8. "New York Writer Extols Soviet". The Tablet. July 4, 1953. p. 17.
9. "John Harvard's Journal". Harvard Magazine. 101: 112. 1998.