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Holocaust and Hiroshima: American Ethnic Prose Writers Face the Extreme

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Werner Sollors
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In her last essay, “House of the One Father” (1941), Mary Antin, most famous for her immigrant autobiography, The Promised Land (1912), questioned her “divorcement” from Jewish life and found herself

pulled by the old forgotten ties, through the violent projection of an immensely magnified Jewish problem. It is one thing to go your separate way, leaving your friends and comrades behind in peace and prosperity; it is another thing to fail to remember them when the world is casting them out. […] The least I can do, in my need to share the sufferings of my people, is declare that I am as one of them. (41)

Type
Special Topic: America: The Idea, the Literature
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PMLA , Volume 118 , Issue 1: Special Topic: America: The Idea, the Literature , January 2003 , pp. 56 - 61
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2003

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