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9. Ibid., 237.
10. Mark Krupnick, "Cynthia Ozick as the Jewish T. S. Eliot." Paper read to the NEH summer seminar on Jewish American writing, University of Illinois, Chicago, July, 1990.
11. Cynthia Ozick, "T. S. Eliot at 101,"
The New Yorker
(Nov. 20, 1989): 124.
12. Ibid., 153.
13. Irving Howe, "Introduction,"
Jewish American Stories,
ed. Irving Howe (New York: New American Library, 1977), 16.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid., 13.
16. Saul Bellow,
Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories
(New York: Viking Press, 1968), 54.
 
Page 158
17. Ibid., 52.
18. Ibid., 90-91.
19. Revault D'Allonnes,
Musical Variations,
45.
20. John Hollander,
Harp Lake
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 28.
21. Harold Bloom,
The Poetics of Influence,
ed. John Hollander (New Haven: Henry Schwab, 1988), 357.
22. Ibid, 354. That other American Jews share Bloom's feeling is confirmed by David Biale's analysis of contemporary Jewish American political and social ideologies. As he notes, "For some, the success of the American Jewish community is cause for celebration in virtually messianic terms: as opposed to all other Jewish communities, the Jews of America no longer live in exile." David Biale,
Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History
(New York: Schocken Books, 1986), 198.
23. Roth,
The Counterlife,
323.
24. Ibid., 324.

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