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Writing the Counter-Book: Joshua Cohen with Eugene Sheppard (JP)

New Books in Literature

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The Anxiety of Influence

In the late 50s and early 60s there was a strand of Jewish identity that seemed so slender, like it had drawn so thin that it was going to snap. And now we fast forward 60 years and not only did it not snap, it's like the rope. I mean, it is the essence of what goes on in Israel and for all I know that's true of America. Even in the 50s and 60s that was actually really there is just that writers didn't notice it or didn't think it thought it was vulgar to dwell onor something like that. Well, I think, I mean this is the story of revisionism in, in, in the Jewish context

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