Once upon a time, and not so long ago at that, Hebrew literature was written and read in the United States. That this is no longer the case may be owing to nothing more complicated than the fact that the great American absorber and synthesizer of identities has done its smiling work on Hebrew, too. But that is no reason why today, especially with the growth of Jewish and, more broadly, ethnic studies, this fascinating body of work should remain "one of the best-kept secrets," as the scholar Alan Mintz has written, "of Jewish American cultural history."
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