Frank OConnor, novelist, short story writer, director of Dublins Abbey Theater, literary critic and historian of Irish literature has called James Joyce, the greatest Jew of all. This is certainly hyperbole, for Joyce was neither Jewish nor would he top a list of non-Jewish notables admired by Jews. Joyces opposition to the Irish Literary Movement led by William Buffer Yeats, which was immersed in the Irish countryside with roots in Irish folklore and the Celtic language was well-known. According to OConnor, Joyce, on the other hand, was the most exclusively urban writer who ever lived, and since Jews had been townsmen for close to two thousand years and their literature was that of the town, it was in that sense that OConnor offered his sobriquet. --Milton Kerker
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