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A New American Jewish Literature: Rejecting Nostalgia and ‘Authenticity’ for Reckoning and Reflection
['Misha Éanna Schaffner-Kargman']
New Voices
They say that American Jewish literature is dead, but I feel it lives on in a new form.
The Jewish world which my Grandfather was born into in the late 1930s looks nothing like the Jewish world I live in now.
Now, in a time of Jewish identity crisis, we need literature that reflects us more than ever.
We must use our diverse experiences to reckon with our past and we must create a Jewish literature that looks like us.
What are we losing when we expect “Jewish literature” to be anything more than a camera with which the author conveys to the reader their own experience?
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