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Article: The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature.(Book Review)
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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature, edited by Michael P. Kramer and Hana Wirth-Nesher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 296 pp. $24.99.
As the People of the Book, Jews have always left literary footprints wherever they have resided, and nowhere is this more evident than in the United States, which has offered them educational opportunity and freedom from oppression. In the last century in particular, Jewish writers of all genres--poetry, fiction, drama, and the essay--have not just revealed Jewish experience, but have shaped American culture and tastes. How this has happened, the consequences for both Jewish and American culture, is ...