''A dazzling contribution to the project of reclaiming Jewish radical fiction of the twentieth century. Rachel Rubin moves with ease, erudition, and lively wit between 'high' and 'low' cultural regions, Left-wing urban realism and elite high modernism, and the ghettos of New York and underworld of pre- and post-revolutionary Russia to explore the gangster as metaphor for the Jewish writer.'' -- Alan Wald, author of Writing from the Left ''Writers who employed the image of the Jewish gangster did so in different ways. But Rachel Rubin has extracted from them an interesting chapter in the history of Jewish adaptation to modernity. '' -- Hyam Maccoby, The Times Literary Supplement ''Brilliantly and authoritatively initiates a needed analysis of the neglected subject of the motif of the Jewish gangster in life and literature.'' -- Ira Dworkin, American Literature ''A smart, fresh look at several previously neglected modernists.'' -- Daniel Morris, Modern Fiction Studies
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