SOURCE: "The Anglo-Jewish Writer," in Encounter, Vol. XIV, No. 2, February, 1960, pp. 62-4.

In the following essay, Glanville views Levy's works as a product of Anglo-Jewish alienation.

There are Anglo-Jewish writers; there is no such thing as Anglo-Jewish writing. As for the writers, the two things that strike one about them are their scarcity, and their relative lack of distinction. The great bulk of Anglo-Jewry shares with American Jewry its origins in Eastern Europe, where a mass exodus began after the passing of the Russian May Laws, in 1881. But where American Jewry has produced an astonishing crop of writers and poets—Saul Bellow, Lionel Trilling, Karl Shapiro, Nelson Algren, Arthur Miller, and the rest—English Jews can point only to a handful of minor figures.

This was forcibly made clear to me when the Jewish Chronicle recently asked me to conduct a series of interviews with "younger Jewish writers...