Isidor Schneider

Isidor Schneider (August 23, 1896 in Horodenka, Galicia, Austria–August 3, 1977 in Manhattan, New York City, New York) one of four children born to Hyman and Sarah Schneider. His family came to the USA when he was six years old.

Literary career Schneider contributed to many literary journals and magazines in his career. They included the left-leaning Menorah Journal (1920s) and New Masses (1930s and 1940s). He also published more literary works in The Nation (where he is still listed as an "author" and in Poetry magazine.

According to Al Filreis, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, Schneider moved from "standard Imagist ditties" in the 1920s to "full-fledged, narrative, descriptive Communist poetry -- poetry that was meant to summon people of the working class to not only take a place in the social scene and demand their rights but to a poetry that they could read, according to the poet in Schneider's case."

He was a Guggenheim Fellow for poetry in 1934.

Communist career Like many literary Americans of the 1920s and 1930s, Schneider became very pro-Communist. Other like-minded literati with whom he interacted closely over the years include: Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, Theodore Dreiser, Lillian Hellman, and Lewis Mumford. The couple resided in Sunnyside in Queens, New York with a daughter. (Lewis Mumford had planned and designed Sunnyside.)

Works Schneider's papers are archived at Columbia University.

Works

Books Doctor Transit, Boni & Liveright, 1925 The Temptation of Anthony: A Novel in Verse, and Other Poems, Boni and Liveright, 1928 Comrade: mister, Equinox cooperative press, 1934 From the Kingdom of Necessity (Novel), Putnam & Sons 1935 The Judas Time, The Dial Press, 1947 The World of Love, Volume 1, G. Braziller, 1964

Translations Mother by Maxim Gorky, The Citadel Press, 1947. Autobiography of Maxim Gorky: My Childhood, In the World, My Universities, The Citadel Press, 1949; Fredonia Books, 2001,

Edited Proletarian Literature in the United States: an Anthology, edited by Granville Hicks, Joseph North, Paul Peters, Isidor Schneider and Alan Calmer; with a critical introduction by Joseph Freeman. International Publishers, New York 1934