Alan Mintz

Apr 26, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Michael Weingrad |Alan Mintz |Julian Levinson

Review By – April 26, 2024 In 2003, Arthur Miller looked back at a dark moment in Amer­i­can Jew­ish his­to­ry that he had dra­ma­tized in his 1945 nov­el, Focus. ​“The anti-Semi­tism I ran into all over the place was fierce,” Miller recalled of the World War II years in Amer­i­ca. ​“And yet there was no sign of any recog­ni­tion of it or acknowl­edge­ment of it in the pub­lic domain, not in nov­els, not in plays … I felt it had to be unearthed.