Alfred Kazin, one of a group of New York critics and thinkers who helped shape intellectual life in this century, has died at the age of 83. Kazin wrote about American literature in several books, including “On Native Grounds.” In “A Walker in the City,” he wrote about his immigrant Jewish childhood in Brooklyn. Kazin said his parents instilled in him “quaint old-fashioned socialism” and the “historic Jewish effort to realize the kingdom of God in this world.”
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