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Oral histories of Lithuanian Jews serve as the textual base for this exploration

The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature by Josh Lambert Yiddish Learning where the intertwined lives ofNational Jewish Book Award Finalist Listen to our podcast with author Josh Lambert An investigation into the transformation of publishing in the United States from a field in which Jews were systematically excluded to one in which they became ubiquitous In the 1960s and 1970s, complaints about a Jewish literary mafia were everywhere. Although a conspiracy of Jews colluding to control publishing in the United States never actually existed, such