Subject: Re: Cheever and Salinger
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 16:31:07 EDT
it's nice to be actually talking about Salinger again on this list :)
I liked what was said about postwar Salinger preferring Fitz over Hem too...
Jim
Valerie wrote:
> From: "Jim Rovira" <jrovira@drew.edu>
>
> > Ah, yeah, I can see an emotional commitment. But by commitment I meant
> the
> > willingness to follow through regardless of rejection by a small segment
> of the
> > community. If he really turned his back on Judaism at that point and
> never
> > looked back...he wasn't committed to it.
>
> OK! I think we agree. I just didn't feel that the word 'commitment' meant
> something so...committed! My English is not precise enough...
>
> > I agree, though...the question was designed to determine whether he was or
> was
> > not "really" Jewish. And this would be painful and disappointing to
> someone who
> > would always feel excluded for some reason or other.
>
> Yes. To Jews, he was not jewish. To others, he was jewish. To himself, it
> was chaotic.
>
> Thanks for your replies, Jim.
>
> Valérie
>
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