{{Short description|American writer and editor (1924–2016)}}
'''Edith Kurzweil''' (born 1924 Vienna - died February 6, 2016 New York City<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=EDITH KURZWEIL's Obituary on New York Times|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=edith-kurzweil&pid=177635398|website=New York Times|accessdate=14 April 2018}}</ref>) was an American writer, and editor of ''Partisan Review''.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,764109-1,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604072754/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,764109-1,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 4, 2011 | magazine=Time | title=FOREIGN TRADE: Civilization's Cradle Snatched | date=1940-06-24 | accessdate=2010-05-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/full-circle-by-edith-kurzweil-11377 |title=Full Circle by Edith Kurzweil |accessdate=2010-01-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090328114638/http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/full-circle-by-edith-kurzweil-11377 |archivedate=2009-03-28 |date=June 2008|website=Commentary Magazine|last=Balint|first=Benjamin|author-link=Benjamin Balint}}</ref> In 1995, she married William Phillips. Born in Vienna, she emigrated to the United States in 1940 after the Anschluss.<ref name=":0" /> Later in life, she graduated with a Ph.D. in sociology from The New School for Social Research.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.city-journal.org/2008/bc0109pc.html|title = Brave Partisan|date = January 9, 2008|access-date = 7 March 2021|archive-date = 3 March 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303191827/http://www.city-journal.org/2008/bc0109pc.html|url-status = dead|website=City Journal|last=Chesler|first=Phyllis|author-link=Phyllis Chesler}}</ref> She taught at Rutgers University.
==Awards== * 1982 Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship * 1987 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship * 2003 National Humanities Medal
==Works== *{{cite book| title=Italian entrepreneurs: rearguard of progress| publisher=Praeger| year= 1983| isbn= 978-0-03-061709-6 }} *{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-UgCA3d6C50C&q=Edith+Kurzweil| title=The age of structuralism: from Lévi-Strauss to Foucault| publisher=Transaction Publishers| year= 1996| isbn= 978-1-56000-879-8 }} *{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yuy6iZ7wpDgC&q=Edith+Kurzweil| title=The Freudians: a comparative perspective| publisher=Transaction Publishers| year= 1997| isbn=978-1-56000-956-6 }} *{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RjdsdXRYvOkC&q=Edith+Kurzweil&pg=PA591| chapter=Feminists and Freudians| title=Feminism in the study of religion: a reader| editor=Darlene M. Juschka| publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group| year= 2001| isbn= 978-0-8264-4727-2 }} *{{cite book| title=Full circle: a memoir| publisher=Transaction Publishers| year= 2007| isbn= 978-1-4128-0662-6 }}
===Editor=== *{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/writerspoliticsp00kurz| url-access=registration | title=Writers & politics: a Partisan review reader |editor=Edith Kurzweil |editor2=William Phillips| publisher=Routledge| year= 1983| isbn= 978-0-7100-9316-5 }} *{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/partisancentury00edit| url-access=registration | title=A partisan century: political writings from Partisan review| editor=Edith Kurzweil| publisher=Columbia University Press| year= 1996| isbn= 978-0-231-10331-2 }} *{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6qUh-6g4xKUC&q=Edith+Kurzweil| title=Nazi laws and Jewish lives: letters from Vienna| author=Malvine Fischer| editor=Edith Kurzweil| publisher=Transaction Publishers| year= 2004| isbn= 978-0-7658-0246-0 }}
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