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	Joseph Epstein (French Resistance leader) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Epstein, also known as Colonel Gilles and as Joseph Andrei, was a leader of the French Resistance during the Second World War.
		Joseph Epstein studied law at Warsaw University where he was exposed to, and later joined, the Polish Communist Party.
		Epstein and his wife then went to Bordeaux, where they continued their studies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Epstein (649 words)

	Epstein (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baruch Epstein, Lithuanian rabbi and the son of Yechiel Michel Epstein.
		Joseph Epstein is also the name of an American editor and essayist.
		Kathleen Epstein, the daughter of Jacob Epstein and Kathleen Garman, was once married to Lucian Freud.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epstein (220 words)

	Interview \| Joseph Epstein
		Joseph Epstein manages to keep aloft two distinct genres, the nonfiction of Snobbery and the fiction of his new collection of stories, Fabulous Small Jews.
		Epstein is also slight, with a bookish air about him that is offset comically by his patented bow tie.
		Said one woman in a letter to the Times, "Thank goodness that Joseph Epstein is not my 9-year-old daughter's teacher, discouraging her creativity and dashing her hopes that she can write a story that others might want to read." Alas, Epstein has always been something of a literary rascal.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/jepstein.html (939 words)

	Bookslut \| Fabulous Small Jews by Joseph Epstein
		Not long ago, Joseph Epstein made a brief splash with a book called Snobbery: The American Version, which appealed to the branch of the reading public that also went crazy for breezy, self-aware nonfiction like Bobos in Paradise and whatever tongue-in-cheek rich white guy NPR is talking about now.
		Before Snobbery, Epstein was chiefly famous for his twenty-two-year stint as editor of The American Scholar -- and an unfortunate 1970 Harper's article that struck many as homophobic (perhaps due to his stated desire to "wish homosexuality off the face of this earth").
		In his over thirty years of journalism and fiction, Epstein has come to occupy the role of "cultural critic," a job as ill-defined as it is, let's face it, unnecessary.
	www.bookslut.com /fiction/2004_04_001880.php (824 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Echoing one of the book's chapters, titled "Fags and Yids," Epstein explained that the WASP aristocracy is dead, and in its stead homosexuals and Jews now constitute the preponderance of this country's taste-makers: designers, decorators, curators, magazine editors, movie and television producers, art and literary critics.
		Epstein's earliest experiences, which he recounts in the book, primed him to become a student of snobbery.
		Coming of age in the early 1950s, Epstein experienced a "vast antisemitism." He said he remembers remarks that were made when his high school played tennis against non-Jewish schools, but said he did not feel that antisemitism impeded his personal advancement.
	www.forward.com /issues/2002/02.12.27/arts2.html (860 words)

	Alibris: Joseph Epstein
		Joseph Epstein attacks the deadly sin of envy, supplying not only his own take on the subject but the opinions of others, including Shakespeare.
		Epstein's lively mind explores such topics as the pleasures of work, neighborhood, and keeping a journal; lecturing, language snobbery, and the comedy of gluttony; and the mixed delights of issuing and receiving praise, friendship, and growing into middle age.
		In Joseph Epstein's fourth collection of literary essays, he considers the lives and works of 19 writers of note, appreciating many of them, roughing up some others, and overall weighing them in the very finely calibrated balance of his well-stocked mind.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Joseph_Epstein (726 words)

	The First Casualty of 1998
		Its exemplary editor for 24 years, Joseph Epstein, is being shown the door for not being politically correct.
		Epstein is politically a centrist, which, in today's hothouse intellectual atmosphere, makes him "objectively" (as the Marxists would say) right wing.
		Epstein managed to procure articles that probably could not find publication in any other academic or intellectual journal, in many cases because he was unafraid of publishing someone who wrote in the first person.
	www.pacificresearch.org /pub/cap/1998/98-01-07.html (499 words)

	Joseph Epstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Joseph Epstein "Colonel Gilles" "Josef Andrej" was born 16 October 1911 in Zamość; he was executed in Fort Mont-Valerian.
		Joseph Epstein had family connection with jewish writer of classic literature Icchak Lejb Perec.
		He didn't say nothing during torture which was made by inspectors of special brigades in Fresnes prison.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/joseph_epstein (907 words)

	Bookreporter.com - SNOBBERY by Joseph Epstein
		Epstein, a man of impressive academic standing, has not here delivered of himself a weighty academic analysis.
		Epstein delivers his lightweight sermon deftly and readably, inventing along the way some delightfully self-explanatory new words: Statustician, snobographer, virtucrat.
		Most readers, one imagines, will find themselves impaled on Epstein's sharp prose at some point --- maybe through their reading habits, taste in music, or the names of their children --- but not to worry.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0395944171.asp (568 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Snobbery," by Joseph Epstein
		It is exactly this sort of complexity that Joseph Epstein tries to capture in his frustratingly uneven "Snobbery: The American Version." Epstein's idea, a good one, was to describe the state of snobbery in this country from the decline of the WASP meritocracy to the present day.
		Still, Epstein cops to the guilty pleasure of mentioning that his son goes to Stanford, when someone has just said her daughter is studying photojournalism at Arizona State.
		Epstein's own colleagues, the writers of the world, come in for their share of attention, being at once the most finely tuned snob detectors and the worst of snobs themselves.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2002/07/18/epstein/?x (965 words)

	ttgapers.com store - Fabulous Small Jews - Joseph Epstein - Product Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Epstein has a sharpness in his writing, and I very much like what might be called their ' hard smart tone'.
		But Epstein is a master at superbly orchestrating an accumulation of personal details and the effect of reading these stories together as a book is like spending time with a good friend in his big-city neighborhood and meeting his family and friends.
		Epstein is that he is a literary geographer of deserved renown, especially when his landscape is metropolitan Chicago.
	www.ttgapers.com /ttStore-index2-asin-0395944023.html (1034 words)

	Amazon.com: Narcissus Leaves the Pool : Familiar Essays: Books: Joseph Epstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Joseph Epstein is out of step with the times; so much the worse for the times.
		Epstein, gentleman scholar that he is, has to my knowledge, handled the insult with all the dignity that Mr.
		Epstein was steeling himself against the opposing armies surrounding his outpost on a literary Masada.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395944031?v=glance (2375 words)

	Amazon.com: Snobbery: The American Version: Books: Joseph Epstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Epstein covers many areas exhaustively, showing just how many different ways you could be a snob in regards to: food, family, money, career, material items, name dropping, schooling, clubs, intelligence, race, religion, politics, and more.
		Epstein is very open about sharing his personal biases and prejudices with the reader, which makes the book more intimate as well as less pretentious.
		All in all, Epstein IS an elitist in the sense that he has the sense and discrimination to accurately gauge relative value in cultural matters, but he is far too honest to be considered a snob.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395944171?v=glance (2222 words)

	Snobbery: The American Version by Joseph Epstein \| PopMatters Book Review
		Epstein touches upon this sentiment as he says "In America, what has traditionally passed for (capital-S) Society has tended to be controlled by women," but then he neglects to follow through on this train of thought.
		Epstein makes an attempt to suggest a cure for snobbery and after his thorough examination of snobbery, it feels a bit tacked-on and, in a way, depressing.
		However, Epstein, for all his teasing, mockery, and, yes, snobbery, seems to take great pride in this country, snobbery or not, and that basic affection is the difference between a coldhearted treatise and a tongue-in-cheek mockery of one of society's oldest, most unfortunate, and yet most humorous ills.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/s/snobbery-the-american-version.shtml (1437 words)

	Sexual Snobbery: The Texture of Joseph Epstein
		The most amusing of these recollections finds Epstein dissuading his would-be seducer by telling him he was studying for the priesthood.
		Epstein has no clue as to why he'd become such surefire homo-bait -- the Jude Law of his day as it were.
		Yet rather than allay his fears this only goes to stoke them as is obvious from yet another anecdote, this one about an analyst of his acquaintance who had a patient so unhinged by his as yet un-acted-upon same-sex desires that he had tried to take his own life.
	www.ehrensteinland.com /htmls/library/epstein.html (2898 words)

	Phlit: A Newsletter on Philosophy and Literature: Elie Kedourie, Joseph Epstein: 2003-3 A
		Epstein discusses a book by Barbara Foley, a left-wing professor in the Northwestern English Department: “Its first 103 pages are given over to the new literary theory gradually becoming regnant in English graduate studies.
		Epstein says that when he was a student, a professor with strong political views would not express those views in the classroom, he would suppress them “in the name of fairness or disinterestedness or a higher allegiance to the subject being taught”.
		His is a reputation much in need of puncturing, if only to release the bloat.”16 Epstein’s criticism of Bloom is based on literary grounds, not political grounds; Bloom is not one of the new breed of “politicizers”, he’s a member of what Epstein calls the “ancien régime”.
	www.ljhammond.com /phlit/2003-03.htm (2972 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Joseph Epstein's Narcissus Leaves the Pool : Familiar Essays
		Joseph Epstein was for almost a quarter of a century the editor of The American Scholar (the journal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society), until being adjudged too conservative in 1998.
		Epstein has apparently always been fairly curmudgeonly, so it's hard to know how much this recognition of his own aging has affected his work and he's certainly still the central presence in most of the essays, so this may all be more a matter of self-consciousness than of life change.
		Epstein writes about how tedious major sports has become, it is not that what he says is true but that those of us who are his readers happen to agree.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/1198/Narcissus%20Le.htm (1547 words)

	Michael Bérubé Online
		An early entry in the feminist sweepstakes, she is currently the Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities at Princeton, a past president of the Modern Language Association, a founder of “gynocriticism” (or the study of women writers)—in other words, guilty until proven innocent.
		Epstein’s drawing-room prose may get its chuckles and its sputters of righteous indignation, but every once in a while, it behooves a writer to get out of the drawing room and onto the Internets.
		Joseph Epstein is not, in fact, a hack.
	www.michaelberube.com /index.php/weblog/balls_to_the_wall (1599 words)

	identity theory \| interviews \| joseph epstein
		Author Joseph Epstein was born and educated in Chicago.
		Joseph Epstein and his wife live in tree-lined Evanston, Illinois, where he is writing a few new books.
		Epstein." Sometimes it does happen and it's a delight, but you are never a lion.
	www.identitytheory.com /interviews/birnbaum122.html (5478 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Snobbery: The American Version by Joseph Epstein, reviewed by Salon.com
		Epstein's idea, a good one, was to describe the state of snobbery in this country from the decline of the WASP meritocracy to the present day.
		Some of Epstein's chapters, especially those on subjects where he has a personal stake — like Ivy League snobbery and writers as snobs — are sharply observed and funny.
		The chefs de snobisme are, predictably, Marcel Proust, Henry James, Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde, all of whom Epstein cites repeatedly and impersonates in his jacket blurbs.
	www.powells.com /review/2002_12_20.html (865 words)

	Ink 19 :: Snobbery: The American Version
		But Joseph Epstein, a lecturer in English and writing at Northwestern University and author of Narcissus Leaves the Pool (1999), is moderately comfortable in the admission that, yes, he is a snob, and is so captivated by the subject that he has decided to write a book about the issue.
		In his opening chapter, Epstein employs the grade school taunt "It takes one to know one" to make the case that he truly understands the mental machinations of a snob, as he has no further to look than himself.
		Epstein also runs through the naming of children, in one instance claiming that Scott no doubt stems from a status-seeking homage to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
	www.ink19.com /issues/august2002/printReviews/snobberyAmerican.html (773 words)

	DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA (E-BK) by Alexis De Tocqueville
		"Epstein is one of the premier contemporary American essayists...What is so remarkable about Epstein as an essay writer is that he'll begin a discussion at some personal place...and end up in another place relevant to us all.
		"Joseph Epstein is an essayist in the brilliant tradition of Charles Lamb.
		One of America's premier essayists, Joseph Epstein was the editor of The American Scholar for 25 years and has taught--and continues to teach--advanced prose, the reading and writing of fiction, the sociology of literature, autobiography, literature and politics, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Willa Cather at Northwestern University.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553900385 (488 words)

	A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays - Joseph Epstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Comment: Joseph Epstein is the type of writer whose works everyone should read but, sadly, too few do.
		Epstein's essays are not the thin, watery things we so commonly see today, containing only a few personal, usually embarrassing remembrances of the author' life.
		Epstein should be, and no doubt someday will be, ranked among the likes of Lamb, Hazlitt, and Leibling.
	www.cdswap.ws /Content/findonamazonus-Asin-0393308545.html (453 words)

	Buy.com - Snobbery: The American Version : Joseph Epstein : ISBN 0618340734
		In some respects a companion volume to Epstein's earlier book AMBITION, SNOBBERY examines what snobbery is, who practices it, what it does in the world, how it came to exist, and where it's most common.
		In that select group belongs Joseph Epstein's "Snobbery: The American Version." I would rank it with works by Alexis de Tocqueville and Thorstein Veblen, except that it is more timely than the former's and infinitely more amusing than the latter's.
		Joseph Epstein has served as the editor of the American Scholar and has taught writing and literature at Northwestern University.
	www.buy.com /prod/Snobbery_The_American_Version/q/loc/106/33750637.html (319 words)

	LA Weekly: Books: Sexual Snobbery
		Epstein makes passing mention of such "homosexuals" (gay being an anathema to him) as Lucius Beebe, Joe Alsop, Allan Bloom and Gore Vidal in the course of his breezy run-through of shifts in societal fashion.
		This is clear in a passage where Epstein spoke of an analyst he knew who had a patient so unhinged by his as yet un-acted-upon same-sex desires that he had tried to take his own life.
		Perhaps one of the four sons he was so worried about 32 years ago might enlighten him, as the world they live in is filled with "openly" gay and lesbian people, many of whom live lives free of the self-loathing he was convinced we are heir to.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/02/41/books-ehrenstein.php (1776 words)

	BW Online \| July 29, 2002 \| New Signposts for Status Seekers
		Epstein's book is about the origins, the essence, the nuances, and the modern variations on the age-old art of the scornful put-down, the superiority complex, and the exclusionary tactic.
		But frankly, Epstein seems mainly to be seeking a venue to trot out all kinds of arch observations and delicious examples of a subject that has captivated him from a young age.
		Epstein says he has been a "statustician" since he was a schoolboy.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/02_30/b3793021.htm (885 words)

	Cal State L.A. - Public Affairs Office News Release - Joseph Epstein's Lecture release
		The lecture, "What's the Point of a College Education?", will touch on Epstein's personal experience and his perception of the current professional and political pressures on higher education.
		Despite the irony and the clever puns, Epstein is no mere lighthearted entertainer.
		Epstein grew up in Chicago, street smart and street wise.
	www.calstatela.edu /univ/ppa/newsrel/50lectr2.htm (453 words)

	Joseph Epstein, "Reflections: A Few Kind Words for Losing" , U.S. Society and Values, December 2003
		Joseph Epstein, "Reflections: A Few Kind Words for Losing", U.S. Society and Values, December 2003
		Joseph Epstein, well-known essayist and author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, recently received a National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush at a White House ceremony for his efforts to deepen public awareness of the humanities.
		Epstein teaches English and writing at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/itsv/1203/ijse/epstein.htm (1571 words)

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