{"id":226,"date":"2007-04-16T12:32:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T20:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2007-12-09T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T18:09:47","slug":"anglo-jewish-literature-raises-its-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Anglo-Jewish Literature Raises Its Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbooks.com\/interviews\/index\/IP_Weber_English.htm\">Professor Donald Weber writes on JBooks.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Feeling uprooted in London almost 20 years ago, [Philip] Roth himself spoke harshly of his experience as a de-territorialized&sbquo; Jewish writer-intellectual living half of each year in England. As he explained in a 1988 interview, in conjunction with the publication of his autobiography, <strong><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Facts-Novelists-Autobiography-Philip-Roth\/dp\/0679749055\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none;\">The Facts<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><em>,<\/em> a what&#8217;s driving [British] society isn&#8217;t dramatized with anything like the turbulent intensity that animates America&#8230; the intensity that&#8217;s generated by the American historical drama of movement and massive displacement, of class overspreading class, region overtaking region, minority encroaching on minority.  Startlingly, just a few years later, the emergence of a vibrant cosmopolitan landscape whose center is multicultural London belies Roth&#8217;s premature judgment. Indeed, contemporary Britain now hums with a rich aural mix: an array of diverse voices, conjured by writers who take the vexed, yet often comic, story of global migration and new-world adjustment as their subject.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Donald Weber writes on JBooks.com: Feeling uprooted in London almost 20 years ago, [Philip] Roth himself spoke harshly of his experience as a de-territorialized&sbquo; Jewish writer-intellectual living half of each year in England. As he explained in a 1988 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=226\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}