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Roths Call It Sleep Reviewed As Jewish Religious Novel
A 1960 retrospective on Roths Call It Sleep analyzes its portrayal of Jewish ghetto life through the mind of a young David Shears. The critique contrasts its lyrical, dreamlike depiction with social realism, noting Roths retreat to childhood and the book’s theological undertones amid 1907 New York settings and encounters with Gentile peers.
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Roth
New Masses
James Hilton
Musa Dagh
Mary Pickford
God
Alexander Woollcott
Rome Burns
Donald Henderson Clarke
Millie
Louis Beretti
United States
New Yorker
Mary Antin
Promised Land
Abraham Cahan
David Shhears
East Side
Cal
David
America
de Poppa
de Petzel
Mone
Nathanael West
Philip Roth
Farrell
Lonigan
Frederic M. Thrasher
New York University
Eda Lou Walton
David Shears