“Thirty years ago the American Jewish fiction of Philip Roth and Saul Bellow was all about Yiddish insults, blonde shiksas, and getting away from the past. Today’s talented crop of young Jewish writers, such as Nathan Englander, Michael Chabon, and Dara Horn, are weaving tales bound in a newfound ethnic pride that has revitalized Jewish literature in America.” (cont’d @ Vanity Fair)
Rise of the New Yiddishists, or: Contemporary Jewish Writers’ “New Sense of Jewish Identity”
April 9, 2009 by jerrysmolin
The 'Not-So-Rough' Guide 
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