Volume 8, Number 10 · June 1, 1967
"Eat! Eat!"
By Bernard Bergonzi
Thou Worm Jacob
by Mark Mirsky
Macmillan, 213 pp., $4.95
Fathers
by Herbert Gold
Random House, 308 pp., $5.95
The Carpenter Years
by Arthur A. Cohen
New American Library, 151 pp., $4.50
Poor George
by Paula Fox
Harcourt, Brace & World, 220 pp., $4.50
Three of these novels deal with a sizable part of American Jewish life in the twentieth century. Mr. Mirsky writes about a declining community in urban Boston; Mr. Gold in his 'novel in the form of a memoir' tells the life story of Sam Gold, who came from czarist Russia as a penniless boy, rose to be a rich businessman in Cleveland, and at the age of eighty is still making money and grabbing at life with both hands; Mr. Cohen covers a few crucial days in the life of Edgar Morrison, born Morris Edelman, a New York Jew who has changed his name and passed for a Gentile, directing the YMCA in a small Pennsylvania town.
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