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Post-Holocaust Literature
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Post-Holocaust Literature
Sanford Pinsker is Shadek Professor of Humanities at Franklin and Marshall College. He writes widely about Jewish American literature and culture.
By the usual laws of literary justice, Jewish American fiction should have melted into the giant maw of assimilation. After all, the story of Jewish American literature may have begun with a chronicling of the shocks and sordid poverty that immigrants found (mostly on the lower East Side and mostly in the fictions of Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska and Henry Roth), but it became the saga of how a generation of immigrant sons managed to take the long psychic journey from Brooklyn tribalism to Manhattan …
