Book Critic and Literary Reviewer

Donna Rifkind

1 article 1995

Donna Rifkind is a book critic and literary reviewer whose work has appeared in publications including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. She contributed a piece to The Weekly Standard in 1995 during its founding year.

DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH

December 18, 1995 · Blog

It seems quaint now, but there was a time, during the middle 1950s and after, when critics spent a lot of their energy arguing over what was specifically "Jewish" about the Jewish writers who were beginning to dominate the American literary scene. That decade witnessed an explosion of fiction by…