Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, in Israel most useable land belongs to a Zionist organization, the Jewish National Fund, which receives tax-exempt American dollars raised by the United Jewish Appeal. The Jewish National Fund buys land from the Israeli government and legally denies to non-Jews the right of buying a home or opening a business on its land. If Jews were the victims of such a system, we would rightly consider such a government racist and anti-Semitic. Although the principles of justice are the same in Jerusalem as in Boston, and Hille warned Jews "do not do unto others what would...
...second example are the Defense Regulations of 1945. Israel has two systems of law, ordinary civil law and the Defense Regulations. The latter were called "worse than Nazi laws" by a leading Jewish lawyer in Palestine in 1946. That lawyer, Yakov Shapira, is now Minister of Justice of the State of Israel and administers exactly the same laws. The difference is that the laws are enforced against non-Jews...
...playing his way through another marital war. This one includes a husband who develops a yen for his surrogate mother-in-law. John Cheever and Bernard Malamud have collections of short stories, both domestic, the one (The World of Apples) waspish and suburban, the other (Rembrandt's Hat) Jewish and urban. Evan S. Connell Jr., once more roving far from the Bridges of Kansas City, has produced Points for a Compass Rose, a poetic meditation upon the pain and perplexity of life, with instances taken from history and myth...
...part-time professor of literature and millionaire novelist, composed a self-interview in which he saw himself both as Henry James and Henny Youngman. James, the 19th century novelist with a mind like a surgical-steel tweezers, revealed the delicate attachments between social conventions and motivation. Youngman, a basic Jewish stand-up comic, is a hammer-and-tongs man who reduces his subjects to recognizable pulp...
...landmark in American comic writing, Portnoy is not the final assimilation of the American Jewish novel. It is a complete cannibalization of it into the American Jewish anti-novel. Isaac Singer may continue to write marvelous stories about immigrant Jews; Saul Bellow may continue to chant the prayer for the dead over our decaying cities. But it is doubtful that anyone can ever write about the American Jewish family again without having his work ruefully compared with Portnoy's grotesque shadow...