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RIBALOW
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AMERICAN JEWISH FICTION AWARDS
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better books will be published, more artistic books will be recog
nized, and more Jewish writers will find they can combine their
Americanism and their Judaism, and find it unnecessary in inter
views in magazines, in commencement addresses and in essays,
to harp on the theme, “Yes, I ’m a writer. Yes, I ’m a Jew. Yes,
I ’m an American but least of all I ’m a Jew.” Perhaps the time
will come for these younger writers when they will not feel com
pelled to place the Jew last.