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As if there could ever be just one. For modern American Jews, bred in
an atmosphere of religious
pluralism and consumerist
freedom of choice, the question
of what it is to be Jewish
grows more complicated with
every generation

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Where the Blochs belong—where, by implication, the rest of us comfortable, conflicted merican
Jews belong—is the biggest conundrum this big book confronts.

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Israel is not exactly a taboo subject for American Jewish novelists, but it isn’t a very popular one, either.

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Here I Am joins Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock on the very short shelf of novels dealing with the competing claims of Zionism and what Roth’s manic mouthpiece Moishe Pipik called Diasporism

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But the book’s political themes don’t emerge right away.

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Fathers and sons (brothers, too) figure prominently here, as they do in so many Jewish stories,
both secular and sacred.

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There is a lot of cultural history in that sequence of Hebrew- and Anglo-Saxon-derived names, and also in the biographies attached to them.

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Isaac, a Holocaust survivor whose wrenching life story is evoked in Foer’s lyrical opening paragraphs, is a paragon of suffering and stoicism.

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Increasing your vocabulary does not mean merely learning the definitions of large numbers of obscure words; it does not mean memorizing scores of unrelated terms.

Lewis, Norman. Word Power Made Easy: The Complete Handbook for Building a Superior Vocabulary (Kindle Locations 612-613). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

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Will have a discernible effect on your methods of thinking— on your store of information— on your ability to express your ideas— on your understanding of human problems.

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Your method was the essence of simplicity: day in and day out you kept learning; you kept squeezing every possible ounce of learning out of every waking moment; you were an eternal question box, for you had a constant and insatiable desire to know and understand.

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All normal human beings are born with a powerful urge to learn. Almost all of them lose this urge, even before they have reached maturity. It is only the few … who are so constituted that lack of learning becomes a nuisance. This is perhaps the most insidious of human tragedies.

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Right up to senility the total decrease in learning ability after age twenty is never more than 15 per cent!

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That does not sound, I submit, as if no one can ever learn anything new after the age of twenty.

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