From a Jewish Communist to a Jewish Buddhist: Allen Ginsberg as a Forerunner of a New American Jew
Religions February 7, 2019 Yaakov Ariel 1 citation
The article examines Allen Ginsberg’s cultural and spiritual journeys, and traces the poet’s paths as foreshadowing those of many American Jews of the last generation. Ginsberg was a unique individual, whose choices were very different other men of his era. However, it was larger developments in American society that allowed him to take steps that were virtually unthinkable during his parents’...