Jewish American Literature

At the oddment of the boloney Terry thinks the Commissioner wants sex, still she is repulsed by his attempt to be Judaic because his penis is circumcised. However, he wants to convert her to Christianity which is wry considering her expectations "She clasped her hands unitedly and held them to her lips. He wanted her soul, she wanted his . . . God, she'd been stupid" (Solotaroff et al. 245).

In Levinson's April 19th, 1985 we as well see the use of satire, symbolism and irony. The story is about a bring forth who worries that her children ar not gaining an education that will confine them strength "when it comes to the crunch" (Solotaroff et al. 159). The author uses symbolism and satire when the arrive discovers her children do not care about arts or letter, only being regular humans. As she muses "Arts disqualified, letters dismissed. Just regular human people, that's all, that's good enough! How to notice this meretricious pop-culture humanism, this ass in a lion's skin, for the imposture it is?" (Solotaroff et al. 158). The centralize on education and learning runs throughout all of these poor stories. Like The Pagan Phallus, this tale ends on an ironic note. The mother complains about and worries over her children's lack of educational development the wide-cut way through the poem. However, when she poses a unbelief to them at the end about being in a situation lik

e families who suffered the concentration camps, her daughter tosses the question back at her "What would you say to us?" (Solotaroff et al. 160). The answer is ironic considering the mother's attitude up until this point, and it comes as a surprise to us as much as to the children "I'd tell you what a license it's been to bring you up. I'd thank you with all my heart for being the children you are" (Solotaroff et al. 160). Thinking her children needed to know the lessons of the past, the mother comes to a higher(prenominal) awareness of her children and herself by reflecting on them herself.

Solotaroff, T. and Rapoport, N. (eds.). The Schoken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction. Schoken Books, 1996.

Goodman's Variant Text also shows the difficulties of two cultures clashing, one the Jewish-Orthodox Jewish life and the other the doubt, criticism and skepticism of to a greater extent secular living. Cecil is left with his children while his wife immerses herself in study. erstwhile again education and learning are central themes, but Cecil represents a resistance to Jewish-Orthodoxy. As he says "It was a assuagement to leave the Brooklyn shul, which rejected the books of biblical criticism he had donated to his father's storage" (Solotaroff et al. 87). The books symbolize Cecil's more skeptical nature and the shul's rejection of them symbolizes his ostracism from orthodox Jews. We see this ostracism later when he is criticized for placing his son in school a year earlier than orthodox educators and implicated grandparents advise. We also see the theme symbolized by the question asked by the teacher: "Hashem or Darwin! YOU Decide" (Solotaroff et al. 92). Ironically, Cecil li
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