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Philip Rahv (March 10, 1908 in Kupin, Russian Empire – December 22, 1973 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American literary critic and essayist. In 1933 he and William Phillips co-founded Partisan Review, one of the most influential literary periodicals in the first half of the twentieth century.
Philip Rahv (born March 10, 1908, Kupin, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died Dec. 22, 1973, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.) was a Ukrainian-born American critic who was cofounder (1933) with William Phillips of The Partisan Review, a journal of literature and social thought.
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Philip Rahv. (1908—1973) Quick Reference. (1908–73), American literary critic and editor, born in Kupin, Ukraine, educated at Brown University. He migrated to the USA in 1922 and within little more than a decade had made ... From: Rahv, Philip in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English »
17. Feb. 1974 · Philip Rahv was born in Kupin, the Ukraine, on March 10, 1908. He came to America in 1922, settling in Providence, R.I. In New York City during the 1930's he contributed articles...
There is in Rahv a greater subtlety and resiliency, a wider area of critical tolerance—but those qualities have been achieved by sacrificing the liveliness, the vigor, and brute impact found in the early Ordealists and nowhere else in American criticism.
10. Dez. 1978 · P HILIP RAHV belonged to the company of radical intellectuals who “stole” Partisan Review from the Communist John Reed Club and in 1937 began it on a new basis as an independent...
Philip Rahv witnessed catastrophic events in the decade following Partisan Review’s rebirth in 1937: Hitler’s invasion of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and France; the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Russia and Germany; US entry into World War II. In 1939 he identified “the two great political catastrophes—profoundly related to each other ...
