Posts Tagged: Saul Bellow
How Saul Bellow ‘Blew It’ With the Holocaust, Changed His Tune After Six Day War
LOS ANGELES—Born in Canada into an immigrant Jewish family in 1915, Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow had a traditional Jewish upbringing, which included Torah study,...
Jewish Authors Honored by British Literary Magazine
A prestigious literary magazine has released its once-a-decade list of top young writers, and five of the twenty inclusions are Jewish. The British journal Granta released...
Jewish Condition, “New” Antisemitism Considered in Edward Alexander’s ‘The State of the Jews’ (INTERVIEW)
Edward Alexander, professor emeritus of English at the University of Washington, is the author of the new book, "The State of the Jews: A Critical...
Was Saul Bellow a Jewish Writer?
In 1970, when I was living in Glasgow, a close friend suggested I read Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet. I went right out and bought...
