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\"\"<\/a>…\u00a0 mail de Benjamin Ivry\u00a0 -Commandeur Exquis de l’ordre de la Grande Gidouille\u00a0 du Coll\u00e8ge de ‘Patapysique-\u00a0 \u00a0du\u00a0 3 d\u00e9cervelage de l’an 146 de l’\u00c8re ‘Pataphysique -31-XII-2018,v- [\u00ab\u00a0L’attrape-coeurs\u00a0\u00bb (\u00ab\u00a0El guardi\u00e1n entre el centeno\u00a0\u00bb, \u00ab\u00a0El vigilant en el camp de s\u00e8gol\u00a0\u00bb,\u00a0\u00bbThe Catcher in the Rye\u00a0\u00bb)\u00a0 est un roman que je lis tous les ans comme \u00ab\u00a0Le solitaire\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0 \u00a0d’Ionesco; et J.D.Salinger un auteur auquel j’ai\u00a0 consacr\u00e9 un film comme \u00e0 Simon Leys et Jorge Luis Borges.]:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On J.D. Salinger\u2019s 100th Birthday,<\/h5>\n
His Not-So-Secret Jewish History<\/h5>\n

by Benjamin Ivry<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n

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Celebrations of the American Jewish author J.D. Salinger\u2019s 100th birthday on January 1 continue apace. A\u00a0J. D. Salinger Boxed Set Centennial Edition<\/a>\u00a0has appeared and forthcoming are a new study by Sarah Graham and a paperback reissue of Thomas Beller\u2019s\u00a0 anecdotal biography . The writer, who died in New Hampshire in 2010, will also be honored by an exhibit in October at the New York Public Library, featuring items from his private archives. For insight on his achievement and whether rumored unpublished works will ever see the light of day, The Forward\u2019s Benjamin Ivry recently spoke with Kenneth Slawenski, author of an acclaimed\u00a0bography \u00a0\u00a0and founder of the Salinger-themed website\u00a0DeadCaulfields.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Forward: Salinger was a bar mitzvah boy of Lithuanian Jewish origin, later described in biographies as the son of a New York importer of kosher cheese and ham, and grandson of a rabbi of the Adath Jeshurun Congregation in Louisville, Kentucy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Was there an inherent contradiction in simultaneously importing kosher cheese and ham?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kenneth Slawenski: I am not sure it was kosher cheese, it was just cheese. That was his father. His grandfather put himself through medical school by serving as a rabbi. His grandfather was born in Russian Lithuania, which was the epicenter of Jewish life at the time, so when he came to America, it was only natural that he became active in the Jewish community. The grandfather was very devout, but Salinger\u2019s father was not. The family attended\u00a0Temple Emanu-El<\/a>\u00a0in New York, but only on major holidays.<\/p>\n

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Salinger\u2019s mother Marie Jillich, born in Iowa, changed her name to Miriam and considered herself Jewish after marrying Salinger\u2019s father. Did his father\u2019s family fear a scandal if word got out that his mother was not born Jewish?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Right. Salinger\u2019s daughter Margaret claimed\u00a0 that he only knew [about his mother\u2019s conversion] after his bar mitzvah. Miriam, his mother, considered herself very Jewish. There is no evidence that she officially converted. That being said, they still celebrated Christmas and were not devout or practicing. They identified as Jews, but not so much in the religious sense.<\/p>\n

Why did Salinger agree when his father insisted that he learn about the meat importing business in Vienna and Bydgoszcz, Poland in the late 1930s? Had he not left Austria in 1938, one month before it was annexed by Nazi Germany, would he have been in danger?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Had he stayed longer, he definitely would have had problems, because the [Jewish] family he stayed with had problems. Salinger had flunked out of different schools, and his father did not want to finance another attempt at education before he got practical job experience. So he worked in a slaughterhouse where pigs were killed, but he had no choice.In\u00a0\u201cA Perfect Day for Bananafish\u201d (1948)<\/a>\u00a0Seymour Glass, son of an Australian Jewish vaudevillian, refers to a little girl with a Jewish-sounding name: \u201cAh, Sharon Lipschutz\u2026 How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire.\u201d Was Salinger alluding ironically to the reputation of T. S. Eliot, who wrote this quotation from \u201cThe Waste Land,\u201d for being anti-Semitic?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say whether or not [Salinger] was even aware of that. There are references to Eliot in several of his works. [Salinger] was not a fan of Eliot, and yet he seemed to be obsessed with him. I think it was the message of Eliot\u2019s poetry, the philosophy of \u201cThe Waste Land.\u201d Eliot\u2019s outlook was far more dismal than Salinger\u2019s at the time. In the novella \u201cThe Inverted Forest\u201d (1947), Salinger imagined a poet who conceived of \u201cnot a wasteland, but a great inverted forest\/with all the foliage underground.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Salinger\u2019s Hemingwayesque tale \u201cA Girl I Knew\u201d (1948), Leah, an Austrian Jewish woman is killed in the Holocaust. Although appreciated by some, the story seems earthbound. Might he have realized that factually recounting his wartime experiences would result in literal-minded works, unlike the idiosyncratic, offbeat Salinger style admired by readers?<\/strong><\/p>\n

That story in particular comes very close to his own experience. It is territory where he is not exactly comfortable because it is too close to his own reality. I like the story a lot, frankly. It is the only story where he does directly address the Holocaust. He condemns murder by acquiescence, by those who turn away from the deed, as much as those who do the deed.<\/p>\n

In 2013, the Associated Press claimed that unpublished books left behind by Salinger would appear, dealing with, among other subjects, the author\u2019s World War II service. Where are they? If they are lesser achievements, like the much-hyped posthumously published novels by\u00a0Harper Lee<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Vladimir Nabokov<\/a>, might Salinger fans be disappointed?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The short answer is yes. I think we will never see them, because his son [Matthew,] who controls the estate, is more interested in his father\u2019s legacy than in publishing new books. You would think the centennial would be the perfect time to do that, but the answer is no.[\u2026] Salinger\u2019s fans are his worst enemies. Salinger was aware towards the end of his life that his own fans were waiting for him to die so that they could read his unpublished manuscripts. That\u2019s a terrible statement. The man\u2019s been dead now for almost ten years and some fans are still frustrated about where those works are.<\/p>\n

\u00a0One critical study harges that although he visited a recently liberated satellite of Dachau concentration camp during World War II military service, Salinger \u201cdid not identify with the six million Jews the Nazis murdered. Although Salinger did not deny the Holocaust, he definitely tried to ignore it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t put a lot of stock in that point of view. The trauma of visiting a [concentration] camp is the same as being in battle. It is not an experience you want to relive. It does not mean that you are questioning the reality of it. Later in life, Salinger wrote a letter explaining that he refuses to go back to Vienna because of \u201cwhat the bastards did to the Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salinger investigated Dianetics (a forerunner of Scientology), yoga, Sufism, Taoism, Christian Science, et al. Was there any sign that Kabbalah influenced his work, as one writer alleged\u00a0\u00a0after claiming to find numerological references in\u00a0\u201cRaise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters\u201d?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Not that I know of, no. He had a spiritual curiosity that was phenomenal after the war, and investigated any number of beliefs. But he landed pretty much on Vedanta, and that embraces all beliefs. You can be Jewish and still adhere to Vedanta.<\/p>\n

In 1971, Jerry Lewis, who was 45 at the time,\u00a0\u00a0claimed that he was the \u201cJewish Holden Caulfield\u201d and for years had wanted to play the role onscreen, but Salinger refused to sell him the rights. Could there have been a worse fate for \u201cCatcher\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n

(laughs) Now, that\u2019s about the worst they could do. I guess in France they would have loved it, but outside of France, I doubt it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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  … depuis …\u00a0 mail de Benjamin Ivry\u00a0 -Commandeur Exquis de l’ordre de la Grande Gidouille\u00a0 du Coll\u00e8ge de ‘Patapysique-\u00a0 \u00a0du\u00a0 3 d\u00e9cervelage de l’an 146 de l’\u00c8re ‘Pataphysique -31-XII-2018,v- [\u00ab\u00a0L’attrape-coeurs\u00a0\u00bb (\u00ab\u00a0El guardi\u00e1n entre el centeno\u00a0\u00bb, \u00ab\u00a0El vigilant en el camp de s\u00e8gol\u00a0\u00bb,\u00a0\u00bbThe Catcher in the Rye\u00a0\u00bb)\u00a0 est un roman que je lis tous les ans comme \u00ab\u00a0Le solitaire\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0 \u00a0d’Ionesco; et J.D.Salinger un auteur auquel j’ai\u00a0 consacr\u00e9 un film comme \u00e0 Simon Leys et Jorge Luis Borges.]: On J.D. Salinger\u2019s 100th Birthday, His Not-So-Secret Jewish History by Benjamin Ivry Celebrations of the American Jewish author J.D. Salinger\u2019s 100th birthday on January 1 continue apace. A\u00a0J. D. Salinger Boxed Set Centennial Edition\u00a0has appeared and forthcoming are a new study by Sarah Graham and a paperback reissue of Thomas Beller\u2019s\u00a0 anecdotal biography . The writer, who died in New Hampshire in 2010, will also be honored by an exhibit in October at the New York Public Library, featuring items from his private archives. For insight on his achievement and whether rumored unpublished works will ever see the light of day, The Forward\u2019s Benjamin Ivry recently spoke with Kenneth Slawenski, author of an acclaimed\u00a0bography \u00a0\u00a0and founder of the Salinger-themed website\u00a0DeadCaulfields.com. The Forward: Salinger was a bar mitzvah boy of Lithuanian Jewish origin, later described in biographies as the son of a New York importer of kosher cheese and ham, and grandson of a rabbi of the Adath Jeshurun Congregation in Louisville, Kentucy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Was there an inherent contradiction in simultaneously importing kosher cheese and ham? Kenneth Slawenski: I am not sure it was kosher cheese, it was just cheese. That was his father. His grandfather put himself through medical school by serving as a rabbi. His grandfather was born in Russian Lithuania, which was the epicenter of Jewish life at the time, so when he came to America, it was only natural that he became active in the Jewish community. The grandfather was very devout, but Salinger\u2019s father was not. The family attended\u00a0Temple Emanu-El\u00a0in New York, but only on major holidays. Salinger\u2019s mother Marie Jillich, born in Iowa, changed her name to Miriam and considered herself Jewish after marrying Salinger\u2019s father. Did his father\u2019s family fear a scandal if word got out that his mother was not born Jewish? Right. Salinger\u2019s daughter Margaret claimed\u00a0 that he only knew [about his mother\u2019s conversion] after his bar mitzvah. Miriam, his mother, considered herself very Jewish. There is no evidence that she officially converted. That being said, they still celebrated Christmas and were not devout or practicing. They identified as Jews, but not so much in the religious sense. Why did Salinger agree when his father insisted that he learn about the meat importing business in Vienna and Bydgoszcz, Poland in the late 1930s? Had he not left Austria in 1938, one month before it was annexed by Nazi Germany, would he have been in danger? Had he stayed longer, he definitely would have had problems, because the [Jewish] family he stayed with had problems. Salinger had flunked out of different schools, and his father did not want to finance another attempt at education before he got practical job experience. So he worked in a slaughterhouse where pigs were killed, but he had no choice.In\u00a0\u201cA Perfect Day for Bananafish\u201d (1948)\u00a0Seymour Glass, son of an Australian Jewish vaudevillian, refers to a little girl with a Jewish-sounding name: \u201cAh, Sharon Lipschutz\u2026 How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire.\u201d Was Salinger alluding ironically to the reputation of T. S. Eliot, who wrote this quotation from \u201cThe Waste Land,\u201d for being anti-Semitic? I can\u2019t say whether or not [Salinger] was even aware of that. There are references to Eliot in several of his works. [Salinger] was not a fan of Eliot, and yet he seemed to be obsessed with him. I think it was the message of Eliot\u2019s poetry, the philosophy of \u201cThe Waste Land.\u201d Eliot\u2019s outlook was far more dismal than Salinger\u2019s at the time. In the novella \u201cThe Inverted Forest\u201d (1947), Salinger imagined a poet who conceived of \u201cnot a wasteland, but a great inverted forest\/with all the foliage underground.\u201d In Salinger\u2019s Hemingwayesque tale \u201cA Girl I Knew\u201d (1948), Leah, an Austrian Jewish woman is killed in the Holocaust. Although appreciated by some, the story seems earthbound. Might he have realized that factually recounting his wartime experiences would result in literal-minded works, unlike the idiosyncratic, offbeat Salinger style admired by readers? That story in particular comes very close to his own experience. It is territory where he is not exactly comfortable because it is too close to his own reality. I like the story a lot, frankly. It is the only story where he does directly address the Holocaust. He condemns murder by acquiescence, by those who turn away from the deed, as much as those who do the deed. In 2013, the Associated Press claimed that unpublished books left behind by Salinger would appear, dealing with, among other subjects, the author\u2019s World War II service. Where are they? If they are lesser achievements, like the much-hyped posthumously published novels by\u00a0Harper Lee\u00a0and\u00a0Vladimir Nabokov, might Salinger fans be disappointed? The short answer is yes. I think we will never see them, because his son [Matthew,] who controls the estate, is more interested in his father\u2019s legacy than in publishing new books. You would think the centennial would be the perfect time to do that, but the answer is no.[\u2026] Salinger\u2019s fans are his worst enemies. Salinger was aware towards the end of his life that his own fans were waiting for him to die so that they could read his unpublished manuscripts. That\u2019s a terrible statement. The man\u2019s been dead now for almost ten years and some fans are still frustrated about where those works are. \u00a0One critical study harges that although he visited a recently liberated satellite of Dachau concentration camp during World War II military service, Salinger \u201cdid not identify with the six million Jews the Nazis murdered. Although Salinger did not deny the Holocaust, he definitely tried to ignore it.\u201d I don\u2019t put a lot of stock in that point of view. The trauma of visiting a [concentration] camp is the same as being in battle. It is not an experience you want to relive. It does not mean that you are questioning the reality of it. Later in life, Salinger wrote a letter explaining that he refuses to go back to Vienna because of \u201cwhat the bastards did to the Jews.\u201d Salinger investigated Dianetics (a forerunner of Scientology), yoga, Sufism, Taoism, Christian Science, et al. Was there any sign that Kabbalah influenced his work, as one writer alleged\u00a0\u00a0after claiming to find numerological references in\u00a0\u201cRaise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters\u201d? Not that I know of, no. He had a spiritual curiosity that was phenomenal after the war, and investigated any number of beliefs. But he landed pretty much on Vedanta, and that embraces all beliefs. You can be Jewish and still adhere to Vedanta. In 1971, Jerry Lewis, who was 45 at the time,\u00a0\u00a0claimed that he was the \u201cJewish Holden Caulfield\u201d and for years had wanted to play the role onscreen, but Salinger refused to sell him the rights. Could there have been a worse fate for \u201cCatcher\u201d? (laughs) Now, that\u2019s about the worst they could do. I guess in France they would have loved it, but outside of France, I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellannees"],"yoast_head":"\nCenti\u00e8me anniversaire de la naissance de J.D.Salinger. - Ceci n\u2019est pas un blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/laregledujeu.org\/arrabal\/2019\/01\/01\/9883\/centieme-anniversaire-de-la-naissance-de-j-d-salinger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Centi\u00e8me anniversaire de la naissance de J.D.Salinger. - Ceci n\u2019est pas un blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"  … depuis …\u00a0 mail de Benjamin Ivry\u00a0 -Commandeur Exquis de l’ordre de la Grande Gidouille\u00a0 du Coll\u00e8ge de ‘Patapysique-\u00a0 \u00a0du\u00a0 3 d\u00e9cervelage de l’an 146 de l’\u00c8re ‘Pataphysique -31-XII-2018,v- [\u00ab\u00a0L’attrape-coeurs\u00a0\u00bb (\u00ab\u00a0El guardi\u00e1n entre el centeno\u00a0\u00bb, \u00ab\u00a0El vigilant en el camp de s\u00e8gol\u00a0\u00bb,\u00a0\u00bbThe Catcher in the Rye\u00a0\u00bb)\u00a0 est un roman que je lis tous les ans comme \u00ab\u00a0Le solitaire\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0 \u00a0d’Ionesco; et J.D.Salinger un auteur auquel j’ai\u00a0 consacr\u00e9 un film comme \u00e0 Simon Leys et Jorge Luis Borges.]: On J.D. Salinger\u2019s 100th Birthday, His Not-So-Secret Jewish History by Benjamin Ivry Celebrations of the American Jewish author J.D. Salinger\u2019s 100th birthday on January 1 continue apace. A\u00a0J. D. Salinger Boxed Set Centennial Edition\u00a0has appeared and forthcoming are a new study by Sarah Graham and a paperback reissue of Thomas Beller\u2019s\u00a0 anecdotal biography . The writer, who died in New Hampshire in 2010, will also be honored by an exhibit in October at the New York Public Library, featuring items from his private archives. For insight on his achievement and whether rumored unpublished works will ever see the light of day, The Forward\u2019s Benjamin Ivry recently spoke with Kenneth Slawenski, author of an acclaimed\u00a0bography \u00a0\u00a0and founder of the Salinger-themed website\u00a0DeadCaulfields.com. The Forward: Salinger was a bar mitzvah boy of Lithuanian Jewish origin, later described in biographies as the son of a New York importer of kosher cheese and ham, and grandson of a rabbi of the Adath Jeshurun Congregation in Louisville, Kentucy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Was there an inherent contradiction in simultaneously importing kosher cheese and ham? Kenneth Slawenski: I am not sure it was kosher cheese, it was just cheese. That was his father. His grandfather put himself through medical school by serving as a rabbi. His grandfather was born in Russian Lithuania, which was the epicenter of Jewish life at the time, so when he came to America, it was only natural that he became active in the Jewish community. The grandfather was very devout, but Salinger\u2019s father was not. The family attended\u00a0Temple Emanu-El\u00a0in New York, but only on major holidays. Salinger\u2019s mother Marie Jillich, born in Iowa, changed her name to Miriam and considered herself Jewish after marrying Salinger\u2019s father. Did his father\u2019s family fear a scandal if word got out that his mother was not born Jewish? Right. Salinger\u2019s daughter Margaret claimed\u00a0 that he only knew [about his mother\u2019s conversion] after his bar mitzvah. Miriam, his mother, considered herself very Jewish. There is no evidence that she officially converted. That being said, they still celebrated Christmas and were not devout or practicing. They identified as Jews, but not so much in the religious sense. Why did Salinger agree when his father insisted that he learn about the meat importing business in Vienna and Bydgoszcz, Poland in the late 1930s? Had he not left Austria in 1938, one month before it was annexed by Nazi Germany, would he have been in danger? Had he stayed longer, he definitely would have had problems, because the [Jewish] family he stayed with had problems. Salinger had flunked out of different schools, and his father did not want to finance another attempt at education before he got practical job experience. So he worked in a slaughterhouse where pigs were killed, but he had no choice.In\u00a0\u201cA Perfect Day for Bananafish\u201d (1948)\u00a0Seymour Glass, son of an Australian Jewish vaudevillian, refers to a little girl with a Jewish-sounding name: \u201cAh, Sharon Lipschutz\u2026 How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire.\u201d Was Salinger alluding ironically to the reputation of T. S. Eliot, who wrote this quotation from \u201cThe Waste Land,\u201d for being anti-Semitic? I can\u2019t say whether or not [Salinger] was even aware of that. There are references to Eliot in several of his works. [Salinger] was not a fan of Eliot, and yet he seemed to be obsessed with him. I think it was the message of Eliot\u2019s poetry, the philosophy of \u201cThe Waste Land.\u201d Eliot\u2019s outlook was far more dismal than Salinger\u2019s at the time. In the novella \u201cThe Inverted Forest\u201d (1947), Salinger imagined a poet who conceived of \u201cnot a wasteland, but a great inverted forest\/with all the foliage underground.\u201d In Salinger\u2019s Hemingwayesque tale \u201cA Girl I Knew\u201d (1948), Leah, an Austrian Jewish woman is killed in the Holocaust. Although appreciated by some, the story seems earthbound. Might he have realized that factually recounting his wartime experiences would result in literal-minded works, unlike the idiosyncratic, offbeat Salinger style admired by readers? That story in particular comes very close to his own experience. It is territory where he is not exactly comfortable because it is too close to his own reality. I like the story a lot, frankly. It is the only story where he does directly address the Holocaust. He condemns murder by acquiescence, by those who turn away from the deed, as much as those who do the deed. In 2013, the Associated Press claimed that unpublished books left behind by Salinger would appear, dealing with, among other subjects, the author\u2019s World War II service. Where are they? If they are lesser achievements, like the much-hyped posthumously published novels by\u00a0Harper Lee\u00a0and\u00a0Vladimir Nabokov, might Salinger fans be disappointed? The short answer is yes. I think we will never see them, because his son [Matthew,] who controls the estate, is more interested in his father\u2019s legacy than in publishing new books. You would think the centennial would be the perfect time to do that, but the answer is no.[\u2026] Salinger\u2019s fans are his worst enemies. Salinger was aware towards the end of his life that his own fans were waiting for him to die so that they could read his unpublished manuscripts. That\u2019s a terrible statement. The man\u2019s been dead now for almost ten years and some fans are still frustrated about where those works are. \u00a0One critical study harges that although he visited a recently liberated satellite of Dachau concentration camp during World War II military service, Salinger \u201cdid not identify with the six million Jews the Nazis murdered. Although Salinger did not deny the Holocaust, he definitely tried to ignore it.\u201d I don\u2019t put a lot of stock in that point of view. The trauma of visiting a [concentration] camp is the same as being in battle. It is not an experience you want to relive. It does not mean that you are questioning the reality of it. Later in life, Salinger wrote a letter explaining that he refuses to go back to Vienna because of \u201cwhat the bastards did to the Jews.\u201d Salinger investigated Dianetics (a forerunner of Scientology), yoga, Sufism, Taoism, Christian Science, et al. Was there any sign that Kabbalah influenced his work, as one writer alleged\u00a0\u00a0after claiming to find numerological references in\u00a0\u201cRaise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters\u201d? Not that I know of, no. He had a spiritual curiosity that was phenomenal after the war, and investigated any number of beliefs. But he landed pretty much on Vedanta, and that embraces all beliefs. You can be Jewish and still adhere to Vedanta. In 1971, Jerry Lewis, who was 45 at the time,\u00a0\u00a0claimed that he was the \u201cJewish Holden Caulfield\u201d and for years had wanted to play the role onscreen, but Salinger refused to sell him the rights. Could there have been a worse fate for \u201cCatcher\u201d? (laughs) Now, that\u2019s about the worst they could do. 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Salinger\u2019s 100th Birthday, His Not-So-Secret Jewish History by Benjamin Ivry Celebrations of the American Jewish author J.D. Salinger\u2019s 100th birthday on January 1 continue apace. A\u00a0J. D. Salinger Boxed Set Centennial Edition\u00a0has appeared and forthcoming are a new study by Sarah Graham and a paperback reissue of Thomas Beller\u2019s\u00a0 anecdotal biography . The writer, who died in New Hampshire in 2010, will also be honored by an exhibit in October at the New York Public Library, featuring items from his private archives. For insight on his achievement and whether rumored unpublished works will ever see the light of day, The Forward\u2019s Benjamin Ivry recently spoke with Kenneth Slawenski, author of an acclaimed\u00a0bography \u00a0\u00a0and founder of the Salinger-themed website\u00a0DeadCaulfields.com. The Forward: Salinger was a bar mitzvah boy of Lithuanian Jewish origin, later described in biographies as the son of a New York importer of kosher cheese and ham, and grandson of a rabbi of the Adath Jeshurun Congregation in Louisville, Kentucy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Was there an inherent contradiction in simultaneously importing kosher cheese and ham? Kenneth Slawenski: I am not sure it was kosher cheese, it was just cheese. That was his father. His grandfather put himself through medical school by serving as a rabbi. His grandfather was born in Russian Lithuania, which was the epicenter of Jewish life at the time, so when he came to America, it was only natural that he became active in the Jewish community. The grandfather was very devout, but Salinger\u2019s father was not. The family attended\u00a0Temple Emanu-El\u00a0in New York, but only on major holidays. Salinger\u2019s mother Marie Jillich, born in Iowa, changed her name to Miriam and considered herself Jewish after marrying Salinger\u2019s father. Did his father\u2019s family fear a scandal if word got out that his mother was not born Jewish? Right. Salinger\u2019s daughter Margaret claimed\u00a0 that he only knew [about his mother\u2019s conversion] after his bar mitzvah. Miriam, his mother, considered herself very Jewish. There is no evidence that she officially converted. That being said, they still celebrated Christmas and were not devout or practicing. They identified as Jews, but not so much in the religious sense. Why did Salinger agree when his father insisted that he learn about the meat importing business in Vienna and Bydgoszcz, Poland in the late 1930s? Had he not left Austria in 1938, one month before it was annexed by Nazi Germany, would he have been in danger? Had he stayed longer, he definitely would have had problems, because the [Jewish] family he stayed with had problems. Salinger had flunked out of different schools, and his father did not want to finance another attempt at education before he got practical job experience. So he worked in a slaughterhouse where pigs were killed, but he had no choice.In\u00a0\u201cA Perfect Day for Bananafish\u201d (1948)\u00a0Seymour Glass, son of an Australian Jewish vaudevillian, refers to a little girl with a Jewish-sounding name: \u201cAh, Sharon Lipschutz\u2026 How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire.\u201d Was Salinger alluding ironically to the reputation of T. S. Eliot, who wrote this quotation from \u201cThe Waste Land,\u201d for being anti-Semitic? I can\u2019t say whether or not [Salinger] was even aware of that. There are references to Eliot in several of his works. [Salinger] was not a fan of Eliot, and yet he seemed to be obsessed with him. I think it was the message of Eliot\u2019s poetry, the philosophy of \u201cThe Waste Land.\u201d Eliot\u2019s outlook was far more dismal than Salinger\u2019s at the time. In the novella \u201cThe Inverted Forest\u201d (1947), Salinger imagined a poet who conceived of \u201cnot a wasteland, but a great inverted forest\/with all the foliage underground.\u201d In Salinger\u2019s Hemingwayesque tale \u201cA Girl I Knew\u201d (1948), Leah, an Austrian Jewish woman is killed in the Holocaust. Although appreciated by some, the story seems earthbound. Might he have realized that factually recounting his wartime experiences would result in literal-minded works, unlike the idiosyncratic, offbeat Salinger style admired by readers? That story in particular comes very close to his own experience. It is territory where he is not exactly comfortable because it is too close to his own reality. I like the story a lot, frankly. It is the only story where he does directly address the Holocaust. He condemns murder by acquiescence, by those who turn away from the deed, as much as those who do the deed. In 2013, the Associated Press claimed that unpublished books left behind by Salinger would appear, dealing with, among other subjects, the author\u2019s World War II service. Where are they? If they are lesser achievements, like the much-hyped posthumously published novels by\u00a0Harper Lee\u00a0and\u00a0Vladimir Nabokov, might Salinger fans be disappointed? The short answer is yes. I think we will never see them, because his son [Matthew,] who controls the estate, is more interested in his father\u2019s legacy than in publishing new books. You would think the centennial would be the perfect time to do that, but the answer is no.[\u2026] Salinger\u2019s fans are his worst enemies. Salinger was aware towards the end of his life that his own fans were waiting for him to die so that they could read his unpublished manuscripts. That\u2019s a terrible statement. The man\u2019s been dead now for almost ten years and some fans are still frustrated about where those works are. \u00a0One critical study harges that although he visited a recently liberated satellite of Dachau concentration camp during World War II military service, Salinger \u201cdid not identify with the six million Jews the Nazis murdered. Although Salinger did not deny the Holocaust, he definitely tried to ignore it.\u201d I don\u2019t put a lot of stock in that point of view. The trauma of visiting a [concentration] camp is the same as being in battle. It is not an experience you want to relive. It does not mean that you are questioning the reality of it. Later in life, Salinger wrote a letter explaining that he refuses to go back to Vienna because of \u201cwhat the bastards did to the Jews.\u201d Salinger investigated Dianetics (a forerunner of Scientology), yoga, Sufism, Taoism, Christian Science, et al. Was there any sign that Kabbalah influenced his work, as one writer alleged\u00a0\u00a0after claiming to find numerological references in\u00a0\u201cRaise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters\u201d? Not that I know of, no. He had a spiritual curiosity that was phenomenal after the war, and investigated any number of beliefs. But he landed pretty much on Vedanta, and that embraces all beliefs. You can be Jewish and still adhere to Vedanta. In 1971, Jerry Lewis, who was 45 at the time,\u00a0\u00a0claimed that he was the \u201cJewish Holden Caulfield\u201d and for years had wanted to play the role onscreen, but Salinger refused to sell him the rights. Could there have been a worse fate for \u201cCatcher\u201d? (laughs) Now, that\u2019s about the worst they could do. 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