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Essential Jewish lit? I've read some Bellow, Amichai, and Roth but that's pretty much it.
inb4 Protocols
Please no shitposting. Please. I want to have a productive thread.

>> No.9084401

By Jewish lit do you mean stuff that is Jewy or stuff that was written by someone who happened to be Jewish?

>> No.9084403

The Wandering Jew

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9084410

>I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

>> No.9084411

>>9084401
A little of both. The writer should obviously be Jewish but it doesn't have to have Jewishness as a central theme of the novel. I think Bellow and Roth are sort of opposite ends of the spectrum - of the little Roth I've read, he tends to make Jewish identity a big part of the work. Bellow characters (I've only read a little, again) seem less conscious of their Jewish identities while still remaining Jewy. I guess I'm looking more for Bellow, if that makes sense.

>> No.9084413

>>9084392
The instructions
Witz

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>>9084392

>Jerzy Kosinski ("The painted bird" & "Steps")
>Elie Wiesel ("Night")
>Primo Levi ("Auschwitz trilogy")
>Isaac Bashevis Singer (Read his short stories, his novels are shit)
>Kafka obviously (All of it)

>> No.9084466

>>9084449
>>Primo Levi ("Auschwitz trilogy")
Fuck, I've really been meaning to read Primo Levi. Was it he who described the exodus of Russians from Germany after the war? Seeing horses pulling old buses, people carrying parts of machines or buildings on their way back east? Or am I thinking of someone else?

>> No.9084492

Philip Roth
Gertrude Stein
Franz Kafka
Marcel Proust

That's it.

>> No.9084499

>>9084392

The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan is fun, and by fun I mean not really fun at all. Basically about the dissolution of culture and identity via capitalism, from a Jewish perspective.

It's naturalist so expect hand-wringing, and expect to have the meaning beaten into your head.

>> No.9084513

>>9084499
Yeah, Cahan can be a little heavy handed. I read his short story Sweatshop Romance and it was polemic from first word to final period. Not necessarily a bad thing or a bad story but too much for me. The saving grace of the story was the romantic indecisiveness of the central young man. Just made it brutal.

>> No.9084516

>>9084392
Any fucking author