Observation ·
Johanna Kaplan’s Serious American Jewish Comedy
By Dr. Ruth WisseThe characters in her new story collection are fully formed creatures of that transitional 20th-century moment between European Jewish survivors and American forgetters.
American Jewish literature
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Response ·
Bellow Was So Jewish He Could Travel Any Distance Without Risking That Allegiance
Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
Why Bellow Was the Least Jewish Writer of the Golden Age of American Jewish Fiction
By Adam KirschCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
Bellow Between Hebraism and Hellenism
By Hillel HalkinCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Monthly Essay ·
What Saul Bellow Saw
By Dr. Ruth WisseThe Jewish writer who became America’s most decorated novelist spent his early years prodding the nation’s soul. Then, sensing danger to it, he took up the role of guardian.
Observation ·
Nicole Krauss’s New Novel Plants a Forest. It Fails to Thrive.
By Jonathan LeafForest Dark is dazzling and promises insight into, among other things, contemporary Israel, but in the end it doesn't deliver.
Observation ·
Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist
By Michael WeingradA just-reissued classic explores an unfamiliar realm of Jewish experience—and is a great American tale besides.
