Isaac Rosenfeld Papers

Author and critic Isaac Rosenfeld (1918-1956) was born in Chicago and, as a young man, was a student at the University of Chicago.

After graduating from the University of Chicago with his master’s degree in 1941, Rosenfeld moved to New York to pursue a PhD at New York University. There, he became a regular contributor to the New Republic, Partisan Review, and The Nation, among other journals.

The majority of Rosenfeld’s stories, reviews, and essays were written in the 1940s, and his novel, Passage from Home, was published in 1946.

The Isaac Rosenfeld Papers includes manuscripts of fiction and critical prose, some of which has never been published. It also includes correspondence concerning the publication of King Solomon and Other Stories (1955) and correspondence between Rosenfeld and Oscar Tarcov (1937-55).

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