Nathan Zuckerman, Jerry Levov, Seymour "Swede" Levov

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The Swede. During the war years, when I was still a grade school boy, this was a magical name in our Newark neighborhood, even to adults just a generation removed from the city's old Prince Street ghetto and not yet so flawlessly Americanized as to be bowled over by the prowess of a high school athlete. The name was magical; so was the anomalous face.

1990 to 1999 End of a Century -- End of a Literary Era