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Kenneth Libo: Confessions of a Jewish Chicken Farmer’s Son

lawrencebush
April 9, 2012

Kenneth Libo, who assisted Irving Howe in the creation of the best-selling The World of Our Fathers and was the first editor of the English-language Forward (1980), died in New York on March 29th at age 74. In his honor, we are publishing here a delightful, unpublished memoir by Ken about growing up gay and Jewish on his parents’ chicken farm. Click here to read it.