Avrom Landy

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Avrom Landy
BornAvrom Mendel Landy
1904 (1904)
Ohio, United States
Died1992 (aged 87–88)
OccupationWriter and journalist
LanguageEnglish
Alma materWisconsin University
GenreHistory
ChildrenSonia Landy Sheridan

'Avrom Landy (AKA "A. Landy", 1904–1992) was a historian, writer and theorist on American Marxism in the first half of the twentieth century. He was the father of the American artist and researcher, the artist Professor Emeritus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sonia Landy Sheridan.

Background[edit]

Landy was born in Cleveland Ohio and received a B.A. from Ohio State University and Master of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Ph.D. in history, philology, the philosophy of language, at Madison University.

Career[edit]

At that time he was appointed to the Daily Worker as editor.[1] He was city editor for the Daily Worker for about two years in the early 1930s. He was co-publisher of International Publishers from 1945 until about 1947, when he left the Communist Party.[2]  Landy was an influential Marxist thinker during the 1930s and 1940s, especially through his educational and editorial work, and also through his articles in various leftist journals.[1]

He became educational director of the Communist Party of America, a position he held until 1945. He was the Communist Party candidate for New York State Senate 4th District in 1941.[citation needed]

He taught at both Phi Beta Kappa- Ohio State University and The University of Wisconsin.[citation needed]

Landy orientated his daughter Sonia to become a translator in global politics, and he hired her to do the French research for his new book "The United States and the Paris Commune of 1871".[1] His daughter tried to get "The Paris Commune" by A. Landy published in London, England, but it was rejected. Later she got Landy's book "The Paris Commune" published in Paris in "La Pensee."[3]

With the four time election of President Franklin Roosevelt, Landy joined Earl Browder, head of the CPUSA, in believing that the USA was on its own historical destiny, a democratic mix of socialism and capitalism.[4]

Legacy[edit]

His archives and documents are at the Northwestern University library "A.Landy Collection" and at the Langlois Foundation, along with his daughter Sonia Landy Sheridan archives in the Sonia's Langlois Foundation Generative Systems records in Montreal, Canada.[1]

Works[edit]

Books[edit]

Articles[edit]

  • "A Year of American Slav Unity," The Communist (1943)[13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "Landy, A., 1904-1992 | Archival and Manuscript Collections". findingaids.library.northwestern.edu. Retrieved January 15, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "13 Years of CPUSA Misleadership on the Woman Question". www.marxists.org. Retrieved January 15, 2020.
  3. ^ "The United States and the Paris Commune of 1871 | Archival and Manuscript Collections". findingaids.library.northwestern.edu. Retrieved January 15, 2020.
  4. ^ Senate, United States Congress (1959). Hearings. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  5. ^ Vogel, Lise (January 1, 2013), "3. Socialist Feminism and the Woman-Question", Marxism and the Oppression of Women, BRILL, pp. 31–39, doi:10.1163/9789004248953_004, ISBN 978-90-04-24895-3
  6. ^ Thomas, George F. (July 1, 1947). "LANDY, A. Marxism and the Democratic Tradition. Pp. 220. New York: International Publishers, 1946. $2.50". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 252 (1): 116–117. doi:10.1177/000271624725200129. ISSN 0002-7162. S2CID 144054861.
  7. ^ Gurian, Waldemar (October 1947). "Marxism and the Democratic Tradition. By A. Landy. (New York: International Publishers. 1946. Pp. 220. $2.50.) - The Christian Significance of Karl Marx. By Alexander Miller. (New York: The Macmillan Company. 1947. Pp. 117. $1.75.)". American Political Science Review. 41 (5): 1028–1029. doi:10.1017/S0003055400260917. ISSN 0003-0554.
  8. ^ "Marxism and the Democratic Tradition". 1947. doi:10.1017/S0003055400260917. S2CID 148509703. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ Carolyn, Marie (1947). "A. Landy, Marxism and the Democratic Tradition". The Thomist. 10 (1): 125. doi:10.1353/tho.1947.0004. S2CID 148770659.
  10. ^ Landy, A., 1904-1992. (1943). Marxism and the woman question. Workers Library Publishers. OCLC 317127123.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "Marxism and the woman question /, by A. Landy | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu. Retrieved January 15, 2020.
  12. ^ "the women question" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on July 16, 2018.
  13. ^ Landy, A. (June 1943). "A Year of American Slav Unity" (PDF). The Communist. Workers Library Publishers: 552–561. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
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