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Jewish Literature A. Backgrounds 1. about the race of Jewish people 2. famous Jews 3. American Jews B. Emergence of Jewish writers They wrote about Jews’ experience in Am. from a Jewish perspective self-consciously. Arthur Miller, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, J. D. Salinger are not included because they do not concern themselves only with Jewish subjects C. Writers A. Backgrounds 1. the race of Jewish people: lived in the Mid-East in ancient times, a distinctively cultured people; extremely poor but highly educated. Around 44 B. C. were driven out of their homeland by the Roman Empire. As a result, wandered and settled down in many countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. They suffered from racial discrimination and persecution all thro’ history; survived numerous anti-Semitism, genocide Not until the 19th.c , Jews thro’ painstaking efforts, gradually become successful in society. They were sufferers and social outcasts, restricted and repressed in Europe, lived as a very tight-knit community in ghettos. A. Backgrounds 2. famous Jews: less than 0.3% of the world population; 3% of Am. Population; 23.5% Nobel prize winners Business tycoons: Traditional industry: Rockefeller (Mobil), Samuel (Shell), Armand Hammer (Red capitalist, Western), Levi Strauss (jeans); Peter Ueberroth (Olympics sponsor), Finance: Rothschild (gold), J. P. Morgan, Warren Buffet (stock market), George Soros (金融大鳄) Mass media: Jack Warren (film), Pulitzer (newspaper); Graham (Washington Daily); Reutors (communication) Information: Gruff (Intel); Sergey Brin/Сергей Михайлович Брин (google), Paul Allen (software) Cultural: Albert Einstein (1879~1988), Picasso (cubist painter); Sigmund Freud (1856~1939); Paul Antony Samuel (modern economics); Arthur Rubinstein (pianist); Yehudi Menuhin (violinist); Henie Ger. Rom. Poet); J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of atomic bombs) Ludwig Wittgenstein (linguist, philosopher, analyst) Charles Darwin (1809~1882 Politics: Kar