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21. Marjorie Morningstar is one of my favorite books

The copy I have has fallen to pieces or okay..to be more precise it has broken into 2-3 pieces.

I learnt a lot about immigrant culture from it..I read it in my early years in the US as a grad student from India. Before that, I suppose I vaguely thought of “white” culture as a monolith having read mostly English books.

It sort of alludes to class distinctions - how different the poorer Eastern European Jewish community is from the wealthier Western European Jewish community, which is distinct from Italian immigrants and Wasps etc.

I had read about the English nobility, but this was a different perspective on America.
Hannah Arendt also mentioned it in her references to “Exception Jews” in the Origins of Totalitarianism..

The ending (of Marjorie Morningstar) always makes me weep..

He was a brilliant author and I read much of his work and when he died just shy of his 104th birthday, I said Kaddish for him, since he by all accounts was a devout Orthodox Jew, at least in his early years. A remarkable output of modern classics by one individual.

Yes Wouk was brilliant. His other major work “The Caine Mutiny” is a favourite in our family as my father was a commodore in the Indian Navy and has fought in a war, though fortunately not under a Queeg..
My mom and I loved those books. We used to quote bits from them to each other when she was still with us, like Samson Aaron’s “No dishes to Vash”…

I remember his passing…it was relatively recent..was he 104?? That is impressive..Yes he was Orthodox Jewish..The only major Jewish character in his most famous work, The Caine Mutiny, though was Barney Greenwald..
I started the “Winds of War” one summer but never ended up finishing it..

Thanks for liking my post..I have an odd relationship with the net/reality at this point and as a “realist” (Existenz)/NPC not a gamer and the type of human female who finds concepts like kayfabe baffling, am sort navigating my way back to reality crudely with minimal tools and info..but I do understand humans better than many who try to contemptuously and foolishly game reality..it seems to work far too well, but it is not hopeless yet..

It is time for all good people to come to the aid of the party as someone British said..I forget who..