[VIDEO] A Voice Still Heard: Irving Howe and Dissent

[VIDEO] A Voice Still Heard: Irving Howe and Dissent

Nina Howe, Paul Berman, and Sarah Leonard discuss Irving Howe’s legacy and influence with American Jewish historian Tony Michels, May 27, 2015.

On May 27, the Tenement Museum in New York City’s Lower East Side hosted a discussion of Irving Howe’s legacy with Howe’s daughter Nina Howe, Dissent editor-at-large Sarah Leonard, and Dissent editorial board member Paul Berman, moderated by American Jewish historian Tony Michels.

A video of the full discussion is below, courtesy of the Tenement Museum.

Click here to read three of Howe’s classic essays, excerpted from the new collection A Voice Still Heard, edited by Nina Howe.


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