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Mary Antin – The Promised Land 1912

Abraham Cahan – The Rise of David Levinsky 1917

Mike Gold – Jews Without Money 1930  social novel, communist

Ring Landner

Landner and Gold = brought existentialism and combined it with communism,
didint have much success in consumerist USA, propaganda in it

The Movie Goer 1961

Henry Roth  Call It Sleep 1934

Leo Rosten  The Joys of Yiddish 1968

Isaac Bashevis Singer – “Gimpel the Foolˮ 1957, The Magician of Lublin
1960

Sholem Asch  The Mother (originally in Yiddish), inspired Singer

after that, jewish became more popular than Yiddish

Leon Uris  Exodus - historical novel, TV series, extremely popular

Herman Wouk -

Uris and Wouk - bestseller of all, but more popularized, not in the academic
world

Saul Bellow – Herzog 1964

Bernard Malamud – The Assistant 1957, “Idiots Firstˮ in the eponymous
collection 1963, Godʼs Grace (bestseller, at first a flop), Pictures of Fidelman

Philip Roth – Goodbye, Columbus 1959, Portnoyʼs Complaint 1969 explicit
description of sexuality (masturbating on the bus, watching people having sex)
- criticised by cont jewish society-,

the Zuckerman trilogy (made him realllyyyy famous, contemplated about WWII,
concentration camps), dedicated to Kundera (they were friends), starting with
The Ghost Writer 1979, The American Pastoral 1997, The Human Stain
2000, The Plot Against America 2004 , professor of Desire - how StB works
and how it is connected to the prostitutions in Prague

all of these there wrote their best works before 1980s

E.L. Doctorow – Ragtime 1975, Homer & Langley 2009

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Tillie Olsen – Yonnondio 1974

Grace Paley – The Little Disturbances of Man 1959

Cynthia Ozick – “The Shawlˮ 1980, novelized in 1989

Art Spiegelman – graphic novel Maus, set during WWII

Paul Auster – New York Trilogy 1987, The Brooklyn Follies 2005

Nathan Englander  For the Relief of Unbearable Urges 1999, The Ministry of
Special Cases 2007, What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
2012, Dinner at the Centre of the Earth 2017,

Theodore Roszak  The Making of Counter-Culture 1969

Nicole Krauss  Man Walks into a Room 2002, The History of Love 2005

Jonathan Safran Foer  Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005, Eating
Animals 2009

Gary Shteyngart  The Russian Debutanteʼs Handbook 2002, Absurdistan
2006, Super Sad True Love Story 2010

Dramatists Elmer Rice, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Davit Mamet

The Havurah movement, The Jewish Catalog 1968

Other authors: Dara Horn, Lara Vapnyar, David Bezmozgis