This was one of the first anthologies of critical essays to center on American- Jewish Literature. One of the essays entitled 'Breakthrough' spoke about the new place in American literature Bellow, Roth, Malamud et al. were making at the time. What is interesting is that thirty years afterwards American Jewish Literature is still alive, and that many new voices have emerged who have a more positive relation to their Jewish heritage, than most of those in the fifties- sixties generations did.