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Never Goodbye, Columbus. The Complex Fate of the Jewish-American Writer
Dickstein, Morris | October 22, 2001 issue

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The article presents information on various Jewish-American writers and their works. As early as the 1960s, influential critics argued that American Jewish writing no longer counted as a distinct or viable literary project, for younger Jews had grown so assimilated, so remote from traditional Jewish life, that only nostalgia kept it going. Ted Solotaroff wrote some exasperated pieces about young writers whose work already seemed to him derivative-thin, tiresome, voguish, strained or sentimental. Other observers have been equally firm in anchoring American Jewish writing to the immigrant experience, a point brought home by Irving Howe in "Commentary," in 1972.

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AUTHORS; CRITICISM; COMMENTARY (Book); HOWE, Irving; NOSTALGIA; IMMIGRANTS
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