The Jewish Literary Mafia

[Troy]

“Boy, don't you go down there fuckin' with them Jews without no money!” —Richard Pryor

I always think of this line whenever someone mentions Jewish people in the content of power. 

 

The following is a paragraph from a very interesting article “TOWARD THE NEXT LITERARY MAFIA”

 

In the first decade of the 20th century, it was both virtually impossible and virtually unheard of for a Jewish person, irrespective of their individual talents, to be hired for any job at a major American publishing company—even if they were Ivy League graduates, heirs to family fortunes, and had brilliant literary minds. They couldn’t get hired on the editorial staff of a widely circulated American magazine, or be granted a professorship in an English department at a prestigious university, either. But all that started to change in the decades after the 1910s, when Jews entered the industry en masse. In addition to founding many of the today’s largest publishing companies, Jews became so influential throughout the industry that by the 1960s American writers as different as Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac, Katherine Anne Porter, and Mario Puzo began to complain about a “Jewish literary mafia.” In short, a minority group went from almost complete exclusion to full literary enfranchisement in a matter of decades. 

[richardmurray]

yeah but the question is, if one is upset at the potency of the white jewish community in a particular industry, what to do to diminish said communities power in said industry?

Did any of those writers you mention provide or live strategies/solutions?

[Troy]

I don’t know.

[richardmurray]

@Troy Me neither and if any of said people tried to do something about it, it failed or at least didn't result in a goal of reducing white jewish communal power in the literary industry of the usa. If any of said people didn't try then they are doing one of the problems with many strategems. The people who utter them or preach them or... prosyletize them to others, didn't actually live them or execute them. Unwillingness to lead by example is one of the saddest diseases among humans.