New York Jew (book)

New York Jew
AuthorAlfred Kazin
LanguageEnglish
GenreAutobiography
PublisherKnopf
Publication date
12 April, 1978
Publication placeUnited States
Pages207
ISBN978-0394495675

New York Jew is the 1978 memoir by New York intellectual, writer and literary critic, Alfred Kazin. It is a sequel to his previous volumes of memoirs; A Walker in the City (1951) and Starting Out in the Thirties (1965).[1] Although not religiously observant, he writes in the memoir: "the Jews are my unconscious."[2] Kazin had previously published a column in The New York Review of Books in 1972, with the same title as the memoir.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference best was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Alfred Kazin's Last Steps Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 16 June 1998
  3. ^ New York Jew The New York Review of Books. 14 December 1972]