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The greatest American play, arguably, is the story of a Jew told by a Jew and cast in “universal” terms. Willy Loman is a Jew in a Jewish industry. But he is never identified as such. His story is never avowed as a Jewish story, and so a great contribution to Jewish American history is lost. It’s lost to culture as a whole, and, more importantly, it’s lost to the Jews, its rightful owners.
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Cardullo, R.J. (2015). Death of a Salesman, Life of a Jew. In: A Play Analysis. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-280-6_4
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