ABSTRACT
One notable feature of Jewish-American fiction since the 1980s has been the continuing contributions of writers whose reputations were made decades earlier. Although mainly associated with the 1960s, Philip Roth has expanded the scope of his fiction and his later work has been notably more ambitious, more densely layered and more concerned with ideology. Also, Henry Roth has made a reappearance with his trilogy (discussed in the conclusion) and Saul Bellow has equally shown that he is concerned with far more than simply the crisis of the Jewish intellectual in American modernity. This survival of earlier voices is far more than that. A reading of this work bears out the view that the glib acceptance of terms such as assimilation and accommodation are far more complex and multi-dimensional than might be thought with a cursory glance.
