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Journal Article
Becoming/Unbecoming Jewish: A Letter from James Salter
2024
Overview
No formal activities involved, just a sense of now belonging to this religion/ethnicity/culture/tribe from which people do not just walk away and end their association, proving, I suppose, that you can easily become Jewish even if you can't easily unbecome it. [...]there is the temperamental piece: I'm not keen on group activities, whether it's team sports, singalongs, or school spirit. Back in the day, if you were a regular reviewer, it was not uncommon to call a book editor you knew, as 1 knew the Inquirer's Carlin Romano, and ask to review a particular book. Once the likes of Michael Ondaatje and Joseph Heller were on board to blurb the 1997 memoir, Burning the Days-published when Salter was 72 years old-my endorsements were no longer necessary. The issue took on weight and mystery when I read this paragraph in Adam Begley's 1990 profile of Salter in the New York Times Magazine; Born James Horowitz, he retired from the Air Force as Maj. James Horowitz.
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Skidmore College
