Edith Kurzweil
American editor
Edith Kurzweil (born 1924 Vienna - died February 6, 2016 New York City) was an American writer, and editor of Partisan Review. In 1995, she married William Phillips. Born in Vienna, she emigrated to the United States in 1940 after the Anschluss. Later in life, she graduated with a Ph.D. in sociology from The New School for Social Research. She taught at Rutgers University.
Awards
1982 Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship
1987 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
2003 National Humanities Medal
Works
Italian entrepreneurs: rearguard of progress. Praeger. 1983. ISBN 978-0-03-061709-6.
The age of structuralism: from Lévi-Strauss to Foucault.
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