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Felix Morrow (June 3, 1906 – May 28, 1988) was an American communist political activist and newspaper editor. In later years, Morrow left the world of politics to become a book publisher. He is best remembered as a factional leader of the American Trotskyist movement. ==Early life== Felix Morrow was born Felix Mayrowitz to an Orthodox Jewish family in 1906 in New York City. His parents, emigrants from Eastern Europe, ran a small grocery store in the city.〔Alan M. Wald, ''The New York intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left.'' Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1987; pg. 47〕 Morrow later recalled his upbringing in a letter to historian Alan Wald: "I came from a Hassidic family, but my father at the age of 15 had fled in disillusionment from the house of the Chortkow Rebbe where his father was a gabbai (rabbai's assistant). But my mother remained religious and I had a traditional Jewish education."〔Alan M. Wald, "The Menorah Group Moves Left," ''Jewish Social Studies,'' vol. 38, no. 3/4. (Summer/Fall 1976). pgs. 289-320〕 In America, both of Felix Mayrowitz's parents had become socialists and Felix had been a participant in the youth section of the Socialist Party of America from an early age, beginning with the Junior division of the Young People's Socialist League.〔 At age 16, Felix was employed as a reporter by the ''Brooklyn Daily Times.''〔 He later went to work for the ''Brooklyn Daily Eagle,'' using his paychecks there to help finance his education at New York University (NYU).〔 Felix Mayrowitz graduated from NYU in 1928 and enrolled in graduate school at Columbia University, also located in New York City, where he studied religion in association with the Philosophy Department.〔Wald, ''The New York intellectuals,'' pg. 48.〕 At the time of his enrolling at Columbia, Felix availed himself of advice he had received that his professional progress would be easier with a less ethnic surname; it was at this time that Felix Mayrowitz became Felix Morrow. Friends at Columbia included Herbert Solow, Meyer Schapiro, Whittaker Chambers, George Novack, John McDonald, and Sidney Hook.〔〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Felix Morrow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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