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March 27, 2024

A Great Literary Critic Reflects on Austrian Jewry and Anti-Semitism in Fiction and Reality

“You know what’s worse than a microaggression? A macroaggression.”

On Monday, the distinguished literary critic Marjorie Perloff died at the age of ninety-two. Born Gabriele Mintz to Jewish parents in Vienna, she and her family fled to Switzerland and then the U.S. after the Nazi takeover. Her 2016 book Edge of Irony deals with six great Austrian modernist writers—five of whom were born Jews. In this 2019 interview, Jeremy Sigler spoke to Perloff about this book and her own childhood:

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