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The court endangers Palestinians and threatens America.
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What Makes American Jewish Fantasy Work, and What Doesn’t
From Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars to Cynthia Ozick.
Examining fantasy novels written by American Jews from the pre-World War II works of Robert Nathan to those that have appeared in the present century, and from cliché-ridden genre fiction to Antiquities, Cynthia Ozick’s “finest work of fiction,” Michael Weingrad makes some general observations about what works and what doesn’t. He cites many examples of writers who clumsily paste Jewish themes onto their imaginary worlds, or who reduce Jewishness to progressive platitudes. Others avoid this kind of “heavy-handedness,” for instance:
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