similation faced by Karl Kraus, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Herzl, Martin Buber, the notorious Otto Weininger, Max Nordau and Franz Kafka /' are addressed. Kafka was one of those caught in the double bind. He was attracted to and repulsed by the eastern Euro- pean Jews. Gilman's analysis of Kafka's "A Report to the Academy" is superb in his de- scription of that story as a paradigm of the eastern Euro- pean Jew's insecure status. In the story an ape learns to talk > but he remains an ape. Gilman's insights into the attitudes toward "the self" of German-Jewish writers in the nineteenth and twentieth cen- tury are sound and his book is obviously a significant contri- bution to the study of the pecul- iar phenomenon of Jewish anti-Semitism. The book is well worth reading for its his- torical material and its in- sights into the complex psy- chology of the central Euro- pean Jewish writers. As good as Gilman's book is, it is not without faults. The text is sometimes obfuscated and slowed by a scholarly pon- derousness. Moreover, as good as Gilman is on the German- Jewish writers, his observa- tions about contemporary American-Jewish writers seem simplistic and tailored to fit his thesis. Gilman's analysis of Philip Roth, for example, is curious, indeed. He argues that because Roth was charged with Jewish self- hatred after Goodbye Colum- bus was published, the novelist responded by creating Nathan Zuckerman (the Zuckerman Bound trilogy) as a self-hating Jewish writer, in order merely to examine the persona of the Jewish anti-Semite. In the ab- sence of any corroborating evi- dence from Roth, I find that hard to believe. Stranger still, the most outspoken Jewish anti-Semite of them all, Nor- man Mailer, is not discussed at all. Finally, Gilman postulates that American plurality is bringing to an end the centuries-old pattern of hostile Jewish identity formation. 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