The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature by Josh Lambert Yiddish Learning a Southern flamethrower of an

a Southern flamethrower of an essayist

whose desire to demand satisfaction in a duel sparked off bloody antisemitic riots

in an effort to better understand the region as a place where different ethnic communities - Poles

Oral histories of Lithuanian Jews serve as the textual base for this exploration

he was arrested for anti-government activities and died tragically from a botched surgery in the Gulag

The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature by Josh Lambert Yiddish Learning a Southern flamethrower of anNational Jewish Book Award Finalist Listen to our podcast with author Josh Lambert An investigation into the transformation of publishing in the United States from a field in which Jews were systematically excluded to one in which they became ubiquitous In the 1960s and 1970s, complaints about a Jewish literary mafia were everywhere. Although a conspiracy of Jews colluding to control publishing in the United States never actually existed, such