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. == Bibliography ==