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Holocaust and tho security of Israel began to compete withanti-Communism as the issue of the hour. The margin that~merican-Jewish writers actually occupied was so narrow that itis better thought of as an edge. However diverse they may havebeen in their points of view, they shared a common situation:they stood at an extraordinary polnt in Jewish history the endof the Diaspora mentality that was taking place in America.Instead of the burdens of the chosen people there were now theexhilarations of a choosing one. The main issue was alreadybecoming clear. It was pressing for expression: The American-Jewlsh writer recognized that he was less marginally Americanthan marglnally Jewish.The fiction of this era was ~haracterlstically a fictionof cons