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Heinze, Andrew R.
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Andrew Heinze is the author of "Jews and the American Soul" (Princeton
University Press), just published last month, and "Adapting to Abundance"
(Columbia University Press, 1990). He is at work on his first novel, "The
Manhood of Arminius Hirsch."

Why should a somewhat stiff novella about Jewish immigrants in 1896 hold an
American audience today? It shouldn't, and if Congress had not reopened the
Golden Door in 1965, ushering in the second great immigration of the 20th
century, Abraham Cahan's "Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto" might now be
gathering dust on a ...

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