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Review
Review of The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature by Benjamin Schreier
The Rise and Fall makes strikingly clear claims about all that is wrong with the field, from its insiderism to its uncritical reliance on “culture” and “ethnicity.”
May 09, 2021