Born Again

... new kind of Jew: strong, self-determined, and unburdened by history - found in New York not only jazz and Greenwich Village but also the Jewish past. And though he died as a painter in New York, he was reborn as a writer, and the books he came to ...

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/06/yoram-kaniuk-postscript.html