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...best-selling author celebrated for his gargantuan appetites, his 600-page novels with their catalogs of sensual impressions, and his operatic love affair with Stage Designer Aline Bernstein, whom he alternately praised as someone who afforded him the "happiest hours I have ever known" and a "titillative New York Jew." His autobiographical novel Look Homeward, Angel was a sensation, and the title of his third book, You Can't Go Home Again, became a rallying cry. William Faulkner later appraised him as one of the most important contemporary American writers. But even in his lifetime, Wolfe was cruelly parodied...
Roth sums up the struggles he has had being a writer with a decidedly ethnic identity and a comfortable, college-educated American Jew in the age of Israel and the diaspora. It wasn't supposed to happen this way, all Jews were supposed to want to return to Israel. But even if the story he tells leaves us baffled in the end, at least he provides an answer to his dilemma...
...Jew is a singular type to be understood in different ways by different people--like "a glass apple." This is the novel where Roth puts it all together and resolves the tension in his life that probably led him to write in the first place...
...most troublesome issues facing Israel since its founding in 1948 has been the definition of Jewish identity. Divisive cases have forced the Cabinet, the courts and the Knesset to grapple with the question: Who is a Jew? The latest phase of the dispute, involving the legitimacy of an American woman's conversion to Judaism, led last week to the resignation of Interior Minister Yitzhak Peretz from the Cabinet and threats from the country's religious parties to quit the coalition government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir...
Fearing a court ruling in Miller's favor, Peretz came up with a compromise: he would approve citizenship but mark her identity card JEWISH (CONVERT). That upset not only Miller, who said it would make her a second-class Jew, but also former Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren. He said that reminding a convert of the past was a "reprehensible" violation of religious law. Last month Israel's Supreme Court tossed out Peretz's proposal and ordered that Miller be registered as a Jew...