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Elisa New

Elisa New is the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard.

  • “I'll do for you myself, you dirty Jew,” shouted Marcus. Left to right: Maria (Dale Fuller], Marcus [Jean Hersholt], Zerkow [Cesare Gravina].
    “I'll do for you myself, you dirty Jew,” shouted Marcus. Left to right: Maria (Dale Fuller], Marcus [Jean Hersholt], Zerkow [Cesare Gravina].
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    My Favorite Anti-Semite: Frank Norris and the Most Horrifying Jew in American Literature

    The progressive-era novelist’s greedy, red-haired, Polish Jew, Zerkow, is the 20th century’s greatest golem

    byElisa New
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    Exodus, Leon Uris (1958)

    Ari Ben Canaan, Tanned Jewish Superman

    byElisa New
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    Hungry Hearts, Anzia Yezierska (1920)

    The Lower East Side’s young women on the make

    byElisa New
  • Still Life With Fish & Orange Slices from the series Vanitas.
    Still Life With Fish & Orange Slices from the series Vanitas.
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    Last Acts: The Swan Songs of Harold Bloom and Philip Roth

    In the final phase of his literary life, Harold Bloom, like Philip Roth, refuses to relinquish his vitality

    byElisa New
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