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Book Award for The Magie Barrel (1958), a collection of shoit stories, and a Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Fixer (1966).

Has a lot of sympathy to the old Jews but he also realises tliat they fell out of place in America; feel uprooted.

■ The Assistan t - conflict between tlie old and younger Jews.

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SAUL BELLÓW (1915- ) a US writer of novels, bom in Canada. His books often relate to łiis jr "w, i Jewish background and many are very humorous. They include The Adventures of Augie HU March (1953), Herzog (1964) and The Actual (1997). He was given tlie Nobel Prize for N&S literaturę in 1976.

■ Less interested in Jewish matters; most characters are, in fact, Jews

PHILIP ROTH (1933-) a US writer of novels and short stories, mostly about American Jewish life.

HHis best-known novel is Portnoy’s Complaint (1969). The short novel Goodbye Columbus (1959) won a National Book Award and became a successful film (1969). His otlier novels include My Life as a Man (1974), Zuckerman Bound (1985), Sabbath sTheater(1995), which won a National Book Award. and American Pastorał (1997), which won tlie Pulitzer Prize.

■ Concentrated on experience of younger generation who still feel bound to legacy of their parents ■ They are bound to the Jewishness which is inescapable; tliey wait to be seen not by the prism of Jewishness

■ He focuses on morę generał circumstances ■ Characters - Jewish intelectuals

■    These writers reflected problems they knew - subject

• Problem of acculturation of Jews

■    Interest in what happened to the Jewish mi nor i ty in the course of time

•    Z*¹ generation of Jews - those born in America