SOURCE: "The Jew as Modern American Writer," in The Commentary Reader: Two Decades of Articles and Stories, edited by Normal Podkhoretz, Atheneum, 1966, pp. xv-xxv.
A highly respected American literary critic, Kazin is best known for his essay collections The Inmost Leaf (1955), Contemporaries (1962), and On Native Grounds (1942), a study of American prose writing since the era of William Dean Howells. In the following essay, he details the rise of the Jewish-American writer.
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