Philip Roth's journey from 'enemy of the Jews' to great Jewish-American novelist
- Written by Brett Ashley Kaplan, Professor of Comparative and World Literature, Director, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Director, Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Philip Roth would call the Jewish resistance to his work "the luckiest break I could have had."AP Photo/Douglas HealeyLike many, I was shocked to learn of novelist Philip Roth’s death.
Just a few months ago he was writing to me, making all sorts of snarky comments on the Dictionary of Literary Biography entry I had written about him.
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