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MY FIRST introduction to the Menorah Journal was a fittingly formal one. A few years ago, while visiting the home of a Yiddish intellectual, a friend of my parents, in the upstate New York...


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Robert Alter is assistant professor of English at Columbia, and author of Rogue's Progress (Harvard University Press) . His article “Maurice Samuel and Jewish Letters” appeared in our March 1964 issue.