Creator Bio
Paul Cowan
1940–1988
Paul Cowan, a journalist and social critic from an assimilated family in Chicago, served as a staff writer for the Village Voice for more than twenty years. His writing addressed Jewish identity, his experiences in the Peace Corps, the war in Vietnam, and the civil rights movement.
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An Orphan in History: Retrieving a Jewish Legacy
In the spring of 1961, I flunked an exam that would have enabled me to write an honors thesis. In reality, it was a minor failure—I was spending most of my time at the Crimson building, where I was…