In Search of American Jewish Culture I

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So, I started reading this book tonight. I was troubled by his use of cultural references that may date the book, and make it harder for readers down the road to read. Some of the cultural references are ok, like "America's most effective dissident who would speak in front of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963." (No name of this person given, and this leads to a problem in the index, this reference to him isn't indexed while another one is.)

The cultural reference that gets me more is "Hart Schaffner and Marx." Though it is cited why does it have to be repeatedly used to refer to three Jewish Authors of the 20th Century. (This is the literary partnership of Roth, Bellow, and Malamud.) Notice that these writters write in English, and that the great American Yiddish writters are not included. And why limit this to just these three, where does someone like Potok fall? [Potok must be too Jewish, he doesn't even make the index. Though the book tries not to be complete, and as much has been written about American Jewish Writters doesn't dwell on the subject.