The Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction

This anthology has among its contributors the greatest of all Jewish American writers of the short- story, I.B. Singer, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malmud, Cynthia Ozick. It also contains selections from other well- known Jewish writers, Grace Paley, Max Apple, Allegra Goodman, and others. It does not however in my judgment contain the greatest of 'Jewish stories' written in America. It does not contain Singer's'Gimpel' or his 'Spinoza of Market Street' or any of his truly greatest stories. It does not contain Bellow's best, or Roth's best or Ozick's best. An anthology of consolation- prizes in this regard. There is much worth reading here, but the greatest American- Jewish story stuff is not here.