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hen did the Jewish
woman go from heroine
to harridan? When some
of the most influential
male writers of the mid-20th century
began writing about their mothers,
says Erica Jong.
Jong herself is one of America's
most prominent literary figures,
the author of the feminist, satiric
classic Fear of Flying. Her view of
Jewish women seems like her
famous character Isadora Wing:
strong, sexy and richly human.
But she sees a darker image in the
works of some of her Jewish male
counterparts, and in TV and film.
"We've become kind of a cliche
and an ugly stereotype,” says
Jong. When you come to the
third generation of American Jew-
ish writers, people like Philip
Roth, Woody Allen and Saul Bel-
low, all the sins of the sons are
blamed on the mothers. And the
mother is demonized, and the
woman is demonized."
Who can forget Roth's Jewish
mother character in Portnoy's
Complaint, all smothering and
shrieking? Inventing Memory,
Jong's latest novel, is the author's
antidote to this poisonous attack.
The novel concerns four genera-
tions of American Jewish women,
from an immigrant portrait artist to
her great-granddaughter, a historian.
Jong's characters are complex, full
of as many foibles as strengths. They
endure rape, poverty, infidelity; they
enjoy romance, riches and fame as
well. And their stories, told in diary

Susan Bernstein is the arts and culture

editor of the Atlanta Jewish Times.

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entries, letters and reminiscences, cre-
ate an inspiring image: a Jewish fami-
ly's feminine legacy.
"This is a character who needs to
have her point of view told," Jong says
of the Jewish woman. "My job as a
writer has always been to tell the
woman's story. Not that there aren't
men in this book whom I like a lot.

But I just felt that the Jewish woman
needed her own book."
It's ironic that the task still needs
doing in 1997, she says.
Inventing Memory is about Jews
rediscovering Jewishness, unearthing
their ancestors from the oblivion of
lost memory and reviving their Yid-
dish, their stories, their spirit.

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