Jainism
James, Henry; friendship of Wharton and; influence on Roth’s writing of
Japan; in Second World War
Jarrell, Randall
Jazz Singer, The (film)
Jerusalem; Demjanjuk trial in; Holocaust memorial in; Wailing Wall in
Jewboy, The (Roth)
“Jewish Blues, The” (Roth)
Jewish Book Council of America
Jewish Councils
Jewish National Fund
“Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis, A” (Roth)
Jews; cemeteries for; charges of self-hatred among; cultural adjustments to American life of; discrimination against, see anti-Semitism; in England; establishment of homeland in Palestine for (see also Israel); fraternities for; humor of; identity as Americans of; immigrant; in literature; Nazi murder of (see also Holocaust); in Newark, N.J., public schools; in 1950s American suburbs; Nixon and; Orthodox; outrage at Roth’s portrayal of; parental opposition to marriage to Christians of; in psychoanalysis; rage against Gentiles of; religious observances of; in Roth’s fiction, see titles of specific novels and stories; Russian; secular; Sephardic, history of; as writers (see also names of authors and titles of works)
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Johnson, Lyndon Baines
Joke, The (Kundera, M.)
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (Freud)
Jolson, Al
Joplin, Janis
Joyce, James
Judt, Tony
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
Justice, Donald
Kafka, Franz; Czech writers and legacy of; influence on Roth’s writing of; instructions for destruction of manuscripts of; nieces of; in Roth’s fiction; Roth teaching courses on
Kafka, Ottla
Kafka, Valerie
Kakutani, Michiko
Kazin, Alfred
Keats, John
Kelly, Robert
Kennedy, Jacqueline
Kent, Allegra
Kenyon Review, The
Kermode, Frank
Khan, Prince Aly
Khoury, Elias
Kierkegaard, Søren
Kilgour, French & Stanbury
King, Stephen
Kiš, Danilo
Kissinger, Henry
Kitaj, R. B.
Kleinschmidt, Hans
Klíma, Ivan
Klímová, Rita
Klinghoffer, Leon
Konrád, George
Korean War
Kornbluth, Jesse
Kosinski, Jerzy
Kramer, Hilton
Kreutzer Sonata, The (Tolstoy)
Kundera, Milan
Kundera, Vera
Lamarr, Hedy
LaMotta, Jake
Laughable Loves (Kundera, M.)
Lawrence, D. H.
Leaving a Doll’s House (Bloom, C.); reviews of; Roth’s fictional response to; Updike’s comment on
le Carré, John
Lee, Harper
Lee, Hermione
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher
Leonard, John
Lessing, Doris
Let Freedom Ring! (Roth and Brand)
“Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead” (Kundera, M.)
Letting Go (Roth); advance for; inspiration for; Jamesian influence on; old Jewish men in; reviews of; sense of moral responsibility in
Levi, Lucia
Levi, Primo
Lewinsky, Monica
Lewis, Sinclair
Library of America
Library of Congress
Liehm, Antonín and Mira
Life magazine
Limelight (movie)
Limelight and After (Bloom, C.)
Lindbergh, Charles
Lindsay, John
Little Theater (Newark, N.J.)
Łódź ghetto
London; anti-Semitism in; Bess and Herman Roth in; Kitaj in; Primo Levi in; in Roth’s fiction; Roth’s life with Claire Bloom in; Saul Bellow in; during Second World War
London Review of Books
London Telegraph
London Times, The; Literary Supplement
Long Island
Lonoff, Lenny
Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe)
Look magazine
Los Angeles Times
Louis, Joe
Lowenstein, Bob
Lukacs, John
Lurie, Alison
“Lycidas” (Milton)
Macdonald, Dwight
Maclean’s magazine
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
Madwoman of Chaillot, The (Giraudoux)
Mafia
Magic Mountain, The (Mann, T.)
Mahler, Gustav
Mailer, Norman; Gornick’s feminist denunciation of; lack of humor in erotic writing of; Pulitzer Prize awarded to
Malamud, Bernard
Malaparte, Curzio
Manea, Norman
Manhattan Transfer (Dos Passos)
Mann, Erika
Mann, Thomas
Mario and the Magician (Mann, T.)
Mars-Jones, Adam
Martin, Mildred
Martin, Nan
Marx Brothers
Marxism
Masin, Seymour “Swede”
Maskenfreiheit
Matisse, Henri
Maurer, Bob
Maurer, Charlotte
May, Elaine
McCarthy, Cormac
McCarthy, Joseph
McCarthy, Mary
McGraw, Ali
Melville, Herman
Memoirs of a Time of Immaturity (Gombrowicz)
Menand, Louis
Men in My Life, The (Gornick)
Metamorphosis, The (Kafka, F.)
Metropolitan Life
Miles, Jack
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Henry
Miller, Ross
Miłosz, Czesław
Milton, John
Mishima, Yukio
Mitchell, John
Moby-Dick (Melville)
Monkey’s Wrench, The (Levi, P.)
Montefiore, Simon Sebag
Morrell, Ottoline
Mossad
Mother’s Kisses, A (Friedman)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf)
Mucha, Jiří
Mudge, Ann
Munro, Alice
Musil, Robert
My Lai massacre
My Life as a Man (Roth); Gornick’s feminist denunciation of; inspiration for; psychoanalytic influence in; reviews of
Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer)
“Name Day Party, The” (Chekhov)
Nasaw, David
Nation, The
National Book Award
National Book Critics Circle Award
National Humanities Medal
National Medal of Arts
Natural, The (Malamud)
Navy, U.S.
Nazis; American sympathizers with; antipodal, mutually excluding lives led by; anti-Semitic propaganda of; murder of Jews by (see also Holocaust); in Roth’s fiction
Nemesis (Roth)
New American Review
Newark (New Jersey); dinner table routines about; House Un-American Activities hearings in; immigrants in; Italians in; Jews move to suburbs from; post-riot; public schools in; Roth’s childhood and adolescence in; Roth’s fiction set in (see also titles of specific novels and stories); Rutgers University branch in; Tumin’s birth in
New Deal
New Republic, The
New School, The
New York City; apartments in; Claire Bloom in; Eastern European writers in; Jews of; literary world in; Maggie Williams in; medical care in; psychoanalysis in; in Roth’s fiction; Roth’s fortieth birthday party in; sixties in; teaching in
New Yorker, The; Milan Kundera published in; reviews of Roth’s books in; Roth published in
New York magazine
New York Post
New York Stories (movie)
New York Times, The; articles by Roth published in; editorials in; Primo Levi interviewed by Roth for; rabbi’s complaints about Roth’s portrayal of Jews reported by; reviews of Roth’s books in; Roth interviewed by; Roth’s op-ed piece on Nixon rejected by; Tumin’s obituary in
New York Times Book Review; interview with Roth in; obituary essay on Malamud published in; poll to determine “single best work of American fiction published in the last twenty-five years” conducted in 2006 by; Roiphe’s essay on male writers in
Nicaragua
Nice Jewish Boy, The (Roth)
Nichols, Mike
9/11 attacks
Nixon, Richard M.
Nobel Prize in Literature
Northwestern University
“Nose, The” (Gogol)
Nouvel Observateur, Le
“Novotny’s Pain” (Roth)
Oates, Joyce Carol
Obama, Barack
Obelisk Press
O’Brien, Edna
Observer, The
Old Man and the Sea, The (Hemingway)
Olivier, Laurence
On a Note of Triumph (Corwin)
O’Neill, Eugene
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Carlyle)
Operation Shylock (Roth); inspiration for; Israeli and Palestinian voices in; New York Times interview with Roth on release of; PEN/Faulkner award for; reviews of; Roth’s use of his own name as a character in
Orchestra Hall (Chicago)
Orwell, George
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Other People’s Houses (Segal)
Our Gang (Roth)
Oxford University; Bodleian Library
Palestine; establishment of Jewish homeland in (see also Israel)
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Palestinians
Paris; Roth in
Paris Review; interview with Roth in
Partisan Review
Passer, Ivan
Patrimony (Roth)
Patriot Act (2001)
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on
Peerce, Larry
PEN; Faulkner Award; Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
Penguin Books
Pennsylvania, University of; School of Arts and Sciences
People magazine
Perelman, S. J.
Periodic Table, The (Levi, P.)
“Philip Roth Reconsidered” (Howe)
Picasso, Pablo
Pictures from an Institution (Jarrell)
Pilar, Rudolf and Luba
Pinter, Harold
Plague, The (Camus)
Playhouse 90 (television program)
Plimpton, George
Plot Against America, The (Roth)
Podhoretz, Norman
Poland
Pollard, Jonathan
Pollock, Jackson
Poorhouse Fair, The (Updike)
Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth); balance of tenderness and rage in; as bestseller; cited at National Humanities Medal ceremony; comic abandon of; in Czechoslovakia; dinner table routines as sounding board for; discussed in The Facts; father’s autographed copies of; first-person narrative voice of; follow-up books to; Henry Miller’s influence on; inspiration for; Israel in; Jewish mother; Jewish outrage at; Nixon-Haldeman discussion of; notoriety of; parents in; psychoanalysis in; publication of; reviews of; Roth’s identity as author of; sex in; and sixties counterculture; struggle against ethical imperatives in; twenty-fifth anniversary edition of; in Updike’s memoir
Portrait of a Lady, The (James)
postmodernism
Postwar (Judt)
Powell, Betty
Prague; fiction set in; fund established to help writers in; Sproul on trips to; U.S. publication of works by writers in, see Writers from the Other Europe series
Prague Orgy, The (Roth)
Pratt Institute
Prescott, Orville
Princeton University
Pritchard, William
Prix Médicis étranger
Professor of Desire, The (Roth); Chekhovian influences in; female characters in; first-person narrative voice of; inspiration for; old Jewish men in; reviews of; sex in
Professor’s House, The (Cather)
Prokofiev, Sergei
Protestants (see also Christians; Gentiles)
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The
Proulx, Annie
Proust, Marcel
psychoanalysis
Publishers Weekly
Pulitzer Prize
Puritans
Puzo, Mario
Pynchon, Thomas
Raab, Scott
Rabbit at Rest (Updike)
Rabbit Is Rich (Updike)
Rabbit Redux (Updike)
Radcliffe College
Raging Bull (movie)
Rampersad, Arnold
Random House
Ravelstein (Bellow, S.)
Reading Myself and Others (Roth)
Reagan, Ronald
Réage, Pauline
realism; Franz Kafka and
Remnick, David
“Report to an Academy, A” (Kafka, F.)
Republican Party
revenge, literary
Revolutionary War
Rhys, Jean
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
Rich, Frank
Richardson, Ralph
Rieff, David
Right, American
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Robinson, Sugar Ray
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Rodgers and Hammerstein, score for State Fair
Rogow, Betty
Roiphe, Katie
Rollins, Sonny
Romania
Romney, Mitt
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rosten, Leo
Roth, Bess Finkel (mother); background of; death of; fictional character based on; grave of; overseas travel of; at Roth’s fortieth birthday party; and Roth’s psychoanalysis; during sons’ childhood and adolescence
Roth, Herman (father); background of; career of; fictional characters based on; final illness and death of; grave of; overseas travel of; Roth’s conflicts with; at Roth’s fortieth birthday party; during sons’ childhood and adolescence; during Watergate hearings; work ethic of
Roth, Margaret “Maggie” Martinson Williams (first wife); alimony awarded to; breakup of Roth and; children of; death of; fictional characters based on; marriage of Roth and
Roth, Philip: affairs of; in army; birthday parties for; birth of; and brother’s death; at Bucknell University; celebrity impersonations by; cemeteries visited by; childhood and adolescence of; Claire Bloom’s relationship with (see also Leaving a Doll’s House); college courses taught by; country house of, see Connecticut, Roth’s country house in; dating; deaths of friends of; divorces Claire Bloom; Eastern European writers aided by; and father’s final illness and death; favorite books of; female characters in the work of; feminist reactions to; friends as pre-publication readers of new works by; friendships; in graduate school at University of Chicago; Halcion-induced breakdown of; health problems of; honored at White House; interviews given by (see also Paris Review, interview with Roth in; Web of Stories); in Israel; Jewish outrage at portrayal of Jews by; joys of non–writing life for; literary influences on, see names of specific authors; in London; long-term girlfriends of, see Mudge, Ann; Sproul, Barbara; and Maggie Williams’s death; marriage of Claire Bloom and; marriage of Maggie Williams and; moral battles in the work of; and mother’s death; music in the life and work of; New York apartments of; New York Times articles by; notoriety of; in Paris; political views of; in Prague; Primo Levi and; psychoanalysis of; research for books by; romance of manhood in the work of; separation from Maggie Williams of; in Southeast Asia; step-children of; suicidal depression of; in Woodstock, N.Y.; works of, Lib
rary of America publication of (see also titles of specific books, dramatic works, essays, and stories); at Yaddo; Yiddish studied by
Roth, Sanford “Sandy” (brother); artistic aspirations of; childhood and adolescence of; death of; fictional character based on; prostate cancer of; supportiveness of, during brother’s illnesses
Roth, Sender (grandfather)
Runyon, Damon
Rushdie, Salman
Russia; Communist, see Soviet Union
Rutgers University
Sabbath’s Theater (Roth); character development in; female characters in; inspiration for; National Book Award for; the repellent as theme in; reviews of; richness of language in; writing process for
Said, Edward
“Sailing to Byzantium” (Yeats)
St. Louis Jewish Light (newspaper)
Salinger, J. D.
Sands Hotel (Las Vegas)
Saturday Evening Post, The
Saudková, Vera
Schindler’s List (movie)
Schlesinger, Arthur
Scholem, Gershom
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schulz, Bruno
Schumann, Robert
Schwartz, Delmore
Scofield, Paul
Second World War; counterhistory of, see Plot Against America, The; England during; fiction set during; Roth’s childhood during; V-E Day
Segal, Lore
Seldes, George
Self-Consciousness (Updike)
Sephardic Jews
September 11, 2001 attacks. See 9/11 attacks
Sereny, Gitta
Servadio, Gaia
Sewanee Review, The
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, Irwin
Shawn, William
Shechner, Mark
Sheed, Wilfrid
Shields, Carol
Shop Talk (Roth)
Short Hills (New Jersey)
Shostakovich, Dmitri
Silver, Ron
Silvers, Robert
Simic, Charles
Simon, Neil
Simon & Schuster
Simpson, O. J.
Sinatra, Frank
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Six-Day War
sixties, counterculture of; in New York; sexuality in; students and; see also anti-war movement
S. Klein department store
Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital (New York)
Smith, Willard
solipsism, charges of
Solotaroff, Ted
Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr
“Some New Jewish Stereotypes” (Roth)
Sontag, Susan
Sorin, Gerald
Soviet Union
Spencer, Stanley
“Spirit of ’76” (Updike)
Sproul, Barbara; fictional character based on; travels with Roth; Woodstock, N.Y., home of Roth and
Stabiner, Karen
Stalin, Joseph
State Department, U.S.
State Fair (movie), Rodgers and Hammerstein score for
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