The Rise and Fall of Jewish American LiteratureBenjamin Schreier argues that Jewish American literature's dominant clich of "breakthrough"that is, the irruption into the heart of the American cultural scene during the 1950s of Jewish American writers like Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and Grace Paleymust also be seen as the critically originary moment of Jewish American literary study. According to Schreier, this is the primal scene of the Jewish American literary field, the point