Louis Harap

Louis Harap was an American writer and editor.

Biography

Harap attended Harvard University, where he was a friend of Delmore Schwartz. He received his doctorate from Harvard in 1932 and then worked as the librarian at Harvard's Library of Philosophy and Psychology until 1939. Harap was active in left-wing politics, organizing a group of Communist faculty members at Harvard with William T. Parry in 1937.
He was a contributor to Science and Society and the Daily Worker. Harap became the managing editor of the left-wing monthly The Jewish Survey in 1941. He later became managing editor of Jewish Life from 1948 to 1957. Harap was one of the first members of the National Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case in 1952. In 1953, Harap testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, denouncing HUAC as anti-Semitic and arguing that Jews were treated better in the Soviet Union than in the United States. Harap died in 1998, in Rutland, Vermont.