September 17, 2004
Permutations of New-World Experiences Rejuvenate Jewish-American Literature
Twenty-seven years ago, in a now-famous introduction to Jewish-American Stories, Irving Howe offered a gloomy prediction about Jewish-American literary expression. A year after his elegiac 1976 chronicle of the migration of East European Jews to America, World of Our Fathers, Howe announced the apparent exhaustion of a once-flourishing Jewish-American fiction. The sheer absorptive power of "Americanization" would distance later writers, Howe argued, from the shaping crucible of the immigrant
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