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...Alfred Kazin, author and literary critic, said last night that the "bleak views" many turn-of-the-century American writers held of Jews influenced them and is reflected in their works...
Speaking before a crowd of 150 at Hillel, Kazin, a professor of English at the City University of New York, said that living conditions on New York's lower East Side, home for most of the Jews who immigrated from Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, "shocked" such writers as Henry Adams, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain...
...Kazin, who joined students for lunch yesterday at Quincy House, called the mass immigration from Europe the "greatest change in modern history," and added that authors of the time were disturbed by what they saw as an influx of people whose "tradition" was greater than their...
...1980s marks one century since Eastern European Jews came to the United States, a period "I have lived myself" through memories of an upbringing in Brooklyn by immigrant parents, Kazin said. His study of authors from the years 1881-1914, Kazin joked, has made it difficult for him to reconcile that "some of my favorite writers would have liked to see me dead...
Critic Alfred Kazin at the Graduate School of the City University of New York: "What has happened to the American mind these days? You have only to look at the marquees featuring one horror film after another, one more domestic drama, to wonder why a European film like The Last Métro, an Australian film like Breaker Morant, is so rare among us. There is not a single stage production on Broadway just now that bears in the slightest on our public condition. The favorite subjects on the book market are terrorism, how to slim down...