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American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in US by Michael Weingrad textbook Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn CollegeOver the last one hundred years, the story of Jews in the United States has been, by and large, one of successful and enthusiastic Americanization. Hundreds of thousands of Jews began the twentieth century as new arrivals in a foreign land yet soon became shapers and definers of American culture itself. One of the clearest expressions of this transformation has been the quick linguistic march of immigrant Jews and their children from Yiddish to