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Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth
Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth argues that Roth's novels teach us that Jewish anxiety stems not only from fear of victimization but also from fear of perpetration. It is impossible to think about Jewish victimization without thinking about the Holocaust; and it is impossible to think about the taboo question of Jewish perpetration without thinking about Israel. Roth's texts explore the Israel-Palestine question and the Holocaust with varying degrees of intensity but all his novels scrutinize perpetration and victimization through examining racism and sexism in America. Brett Ashley Kaplan uses Roth's novels as springboards to illuminate larger problems of victimization and perpetration; masculinity, femininity, and gender; racism and anti-Semitism. For if, as Kaplan argues, Jewish anxiety is not only about the fear of oppression, and we can begin to see how these anxieties function in terms of fears of perpetration, then perhaps we can begin to unpack the complicated dynamics around the line between the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine.
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Roth Revolution
In essence, a Roth IRA conversion requires paying taxes on the portion of your IRA or 401(k) that you convert, but then that money can grow income tax-free for the rest of your, your spouse’s, your children's and grandchildren's lives. The advantage of a tax-savvy long term Roth IRA conversion is often measured in the millions. The real eye-opener, however, is that Roth IRA conversions are great for older IRA owners, regardless of the benefits to future generations. "The Roth Revolution" addresses the following topics clearly and objectively: * Whether, how much, and when to convert * Costs and benefits of a Roth IRA conversion * Advice for taxpayers in each income tax bracket * The impact of future tax increases * Synergy of delaying (or returning) Social Security and Roth IRA conversions * Combining charitable gifts and Roth IRA conversions * Tax-free conversions of after-tax dollars in IRAs and retirement plans * Converting and recharacterizing strategies You may be asking, “Who in their right mind would pay taxes before they have to?” The answer is James Lange and thousands of his readers and clients, all the top IRA experts, and after reading "The Roth Revolution", hopefully you too.
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Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth
Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth argues that Roth's novels teach us that Jewish anxiety stems not only from fear of victimization but also from fear of perpetration. It is impossible to think about Jewish victimization without thinking about the Holocaust; and it is impossible to think about the taboo question of Jewish perpetration without thinking about Israel. Roth's texts explore the Israel-Palestine question and the Holocaust with varying degrees of intensity but all his novels scrutinize perpetration and victimization through examining racism and sexism in America. Brett Ashley Kaplan uses Roth's novels as springboards to illuminate larger problems of victimization and perpetration; masculinity, femininity, and gender; racism and anti-Semitism. For if, as Kaplan argues, Jewish anxiety is not only about the fear of oppression, and we can begin to see how these anxieties function in terms of fears of perpetration, then perhaps we can begin to unpack the complicated dynamics around the line between the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine.
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American Pastoral
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEA Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years"An incandescent fiction.... American Pastoral scintillates with more Rothian wit, paradox, eloquent tantrums and absurd pratfalls placed at the exit of each irresistible argument that can be counted.... He strikes a vivid blaze." --Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe first book in the brilliant American Trilogy of postwar set novels, American Pastoral dissects the American dream during the social upheaval of the 1960s and is widely considered to be one Philip Roth's masterpieces.Seymour "Swede" Levov--a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory--comes of age in thriving, triumphant postwar America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok, including his beloved daughter Merry, who commits an outlandish act of political terrorism. Not even the most private, well-intentioned citizen, it seems, gets to sidestep the sweep of history.With vigorous realism, Roth takes us back to the conflicts and violent transitions of the 1960s. It's a book about wanting to belong--and refusing to belong--to America. It sets the desire for an American pastoral--a respectable life of space, calm, order, optimism, and achievement--against the American Berserk.
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Roth after Eighty
Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth’s retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 would mean for the future consideration of his legacy. This collection seeks to answer those questions in a scholarly way. Composed of eleven original essays written by accomplished scholars in the field of Philip Roth Studies, the collection is both relevant and engaging on three levels: it is the first of its kind to offer a scholarly retrospective of Roth’s works and career; it considers Roth within the American literary imagination; and it speculates on Roth’s legacy—particularly the enduring quality of his novels that will continue to resonate long after his retirement.
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Magic Bean
At the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America’s land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation’s largest cash crop. How this little-known Chinese transplant, initially grown chiefly for forage, turned into a ubiquitous component of American farming, culture, and cuisine is the story Matthew Roth tells in Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America.The soybean’s journey from one continent into the heart of another was by no means assured or predictable. In Asia, the soybean had been bred and cultivated into a nutritious staple food over the course of centuries. Its adoption by Americans was long in coming—the outcome of migration and innovation, changing tastes and habits, and the transformation of food, farming, breeding, marketing, and indeed the bean itself, during the twentieth century. All come in for scrutiny as Roth traces the ups and downs of the soybean’s journey. Along the way, he uncovers surprising developments, including a series of catastrophic explosions at soy-processing plants in the 1930s, the widespread production of tofu in Japanese-American internment camps during World War II, the decades-long project to improve the blandness of soybean oil, the creation of new southern soybean varieties named after Confederate generals, the role of the San Francisco Bay Area counterculture in popularizing soy foods, and the discovery of soy phytoestrogens in the late 1980s. We also encounter fascinating figures in their own right, such as Yamei Kin, the Chinese American who promoted tofu during World War I, and African American chemist Percy Lavon Julian, who played a critical role in the story of synthetic human hormones derived from soy sterols.A thoroughly engaging work of narrative history, Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America is the first comprehensive account of the soybean in America over the entire course of the twentieth century.
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Roth's Wars
Treating Philip Roth as a war writer—as well as a sportswriter, crime reporter, political commentator, and Newark chronicler—Roth’s Wars: A Career in Conflict offers a thoroughly researched account of the novelist’s preoccupation with wars around the world and wars at home. This wide-ranging social and cultural history of Roth’s career examines intersections between Roth’s preoccupations as a writer and the work of contemporaries, such as J.D. Salinger, Joan Didion, George Plimpton, Hannah Arendt, E.L. Doctorow, Flannery O’Connor, Michael Herr, and Don DeLillo. The legends and icons who figure in this account of Roth’s career include Dwight Eisenhower, Meyer Lansky, Ernie Pyle, Bob Dylan, Johnny Appleseed, Anne Frank, JFK, Mickey Mantle, the Marx Brothers, Thomas Paine, Sandy Koufax, and Franz Kafka.
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Philip Roth and the Body
To what extent can the leaky, porous bodies in Philip Roth’s fiction be read as symbols of resistance against anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and racism?Philip Roth and the Body questions the symbolic functionality of the corporeal in Roth’s main works of fiction, particularly as sites of gender and racial identification for Roth’s protagonists. In his recurrent employment of the abject, Roth throws into doubt the body as a coherent, stable entity, undermining his male characters’ determinations of gendered and racial otherness through his porously unstable bodies. Joshua Lander draws on the work of Zygmunt Bauman and his theory of the ‘conceptual Jew’ to argue that Roth’s fiction is yoked together by a shared interest in how anti-Semitic stereotypes of Jewish difference – centered around the body – pervasively inform American Jewish identities. The book also contends that Roth resists American white nationalism by transforming the body’s ejaculations, excretions, secretions, and expulsions into symbols of difference that he repeatedly ties to Jewishness. At the same time, this study highlights how Roth's novels, through his focus on Jewish men, risk the reification of America’s sexist social structures as they intersect with the very racism Roth seeks to undermine.Philip Roth and the Body’s examination of how bodies in Roth’s fiction are entities troubled within his prose renews conversations about whose bodies matter, both in Roth studies and in the context of America’s racial and social politics.
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Rechts und Links
Bei Ausbruch des Krieges bricht Paul Bernheim seine Studien in Oxford ab. Er darf bei den Dragonern reiten, wird aber als Verpflegungsoffizier hinter die Front kommandiert. Tief entt�uscht wandelt er sich zum erbitterten Kriegsgegner. Im dritten Kriegsjahr dann gibt er seinen angenehmen Dienst auf und meldet sich freiwillig als Leutnant der Infanterie an die Ostfront. Paul wird verwundet. Als er das Spital verl�sst, ist der Krieg vorbei und die Soldaten revoltieren. Paul tr�gt weiter seine Offiziersabzeichen und wird von Soldaten blutig geschlagen. Konservativ und patriotisch will er Karriere machen. Der j�ngere Bruder Theodor verachtet ihn als Kriegsverlierer; sagt Paul ins Gesicht: "Wir werden keinen Krieg mehr verlieren". Auf Theodors Jacken�rmel ist "ein Hakenkreuz angen�ht". "Die Volksgenossen denken nach seiner Ansicht viel zu wenig an Deutschland." Die j�dische Herkunft seiner Mutter st�rt ihn. Antisemitisch und v�lkisch gesinnt, muss er ins Ausland fliehen. Unmittelbar vor der Flucht fordert Theodor von seinem Bruder Geld. Paul gibt nichts, sondern dessen neuer Gesch�ftsfreund Nikolai Brandeis zahlt. Brandeis' gesch�ftlicher Aufstieg ist unaufhaltsam. Joseph Roth (1894-1939) war ein �sterreichischer Schriftsteller und Journalist.
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Journalistische Werke
Joseph Roth (1894-1939) war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller und Journalist. Er war seinen Zeitgenossen in erster Linie als Journalist bekannt. Seine Beiträge erschienen in verschiedenen Zeitungen, darunter der Neuen Berliner Zeitung. 1922 kündigt er die Mitarbeit beim Börsen-Courier auf. Er schreibt: Ich kann wahrhaftig nicht mehr die Rücksichten auf ein bürgerliches Publikum teilen und dessen Sonntagsplauderer bleiben, wenn ich nicht täglich meinen Sozialismus verleugnen will. Vielleicht wäre ich trotzdem schwach genug gewesen, für ein reicheres Gehalt meine Überzeugung zurückzudrängen, oder für eine häufigere Anerkennung meiner Arbeit. Er zeichnete zwar Beiträge für den sozialistischen Vorwärts als Der rote Joseph, war aber sicherlich kein Sozialist, dessen Überzeugungen auf theoretischen Fundamenten ruhten. Vielmehr zeigt er sich in seinen Berichten und Feuilletons als genauer Beobachter, der aus den wahrgenommenen Lebensfragmenten und unmittelbaren Äußerungen menschlichen Unglücks weitreichende Folgerungen betreffend sozialer Missstände und politischer Verhältnisse zieht. Ab 1923 arbeitete er als Feuilletonkorrespondent für die renommierte Frankfurter Zeitung, in der in den folgenden Jahren ein großer Teil seiner journalistischen Arbeiten erscheinen sollte. Allgemein wird bei Roth für die Jahre 1925/1926 eine Wandlung vom Sozialisten zum Monarchisten diagnostiziert. Er bleibt beim Konkreten und erweist sich hier als sehr genauer Beobachter. Am 30. Januar 1933, dem Tag von Hitlers Ernennung zum Reichskanzler, verließ Roth Deutschland. Bald wurden auch seine Bücher verbrannt. Er wählte als Ort seines Exils Paris und begann der Mitarbeit an Exilzeitungen und -zeitschriften.
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Sabbath's Theater
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDOne of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsPhilip Roth at the peak of his powers, Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath an aging, raging powerhouse of a gargantuan hero.At sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. Sabbath's Theater tells Mickey's story in the wake of the death of his mistress, an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Mickey is now besieged by ghosts--of his mother, his beloved brother, his vanished first wife, his mistress of thirteen years. Bereft and grieving, he embarks on a turbulent journey back into his past, one that brings him to the brink of madness and extinction. But no matter how ardently he courts death, he is too exuberantly alive to succeed at dying.
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Gesammelte Erzählungen
Joseph Roth (1894-1939) war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller und Journalist. Roth war seinen Zeitgenossen in erster Linie als Journalist bekannt und journalistische Arbeiten machen gut die Hälfte seines Werkes aus. Als Romancier setzt sich Roth zunächst mit den traumatischen Erfahrungen ehemaliger Frontoffiziere auseinander ("Flucht ohne Ende"). Später dann erfolgreich u.a. mit der mythisierenden Beschreibung der Habsburgermonarchie vor ihrem Untergang ("Radetzkymarsch"). Am 30. Januar 1933, dem Tag von Hitlers Ernennung zum Reichskanzler, verließ Roth Deutschland. Bald wurden auch seine Bücher verbrannt. Roth wählte als Ort seines Exils Paris und begann der Mitarbeit an Exilzeitungen und -zeitschriften. Inhalt: - Die Büste des Kaisers - Der Vorzugsschüler - Barbara - Karriere - Von dem Orte, von dem ich jetzt sprechen will - Kranke Menschheit - Immer seltener werden in dieser Welt - Das Kartell - Der blinde Spiegel - April - Das reiche Haus gegenüber - Heute früh kam ein Brief - Jugend - Stationschef Fallmerayer - Ein Kapitel Revolution - Triumph der Schönheit - Der Leviathan - Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker
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Tarabas - Ein Gast auf dieser Erde
Die Handlung f�hrt von 1914 bis 1919 von New York nach Galizien. Erz�hlt werden die letzten sechs Jahre im Leben des Gutsbesitzersohnes Nikolaus Tarabas. Der Katholik Nikolaus aus dem galizischen Dorf Koryla besucht die Technische Hochschule in Petersburg und beteiligt sich an einem Attentat auf den Gouverneur von Cherson. Zur Strafe schickt ihn sein Vater nach Amerika. In New York weissagt ihm eine Zigeunerin, er w�rde ein M�rder und ein Heiliger werden. Unverhofft kommt ihm der Ausbruch des Krieges zu Hilfe. �ber den Hafen Riga kehrt Tarabas nach Koryla zur�ck. Bevor Leutnant Tarabas bei seinem Regiment in Cherson einr�ckt, verf�hrt er noch die Cousine Maria. Der Vater bemerkt das und jagt ihn aus dem Hause. Er f�hrt die Untergebenen mit eiserner Faust, l�sst t�ten und t�tet. Als dann die Revolution ausbricht, h�lt Tarabas die Reste seiner Kompanie zusammen. Joseph Roth (1894 - 1939) war ein �sterreichischer Schriftsteller und Journalist.
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Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship on one of the major American novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries.The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth presents state-of-the-art scholarship on new research methods, current debates, and future directions in Philip Roth studies. It illuminates how Roth, one of the most influential American writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, not only reflected American history and culture in his important novels but uncannily anticipated our American future. Divided into six main sections, this Handbook considers such topics:- The full range of Roth’s writing, from his novels and short stories to essays and life writing- Major interdisciplinary scholarly perspectives across literary studies, politics, gender studies, critical race theory, and ecocriticism- Roth’s literary legacy across contemporary fiction, Jewish literature, the arts, and culture studies- Key contexts including American political movements since the 1950s, the American Jewish experience, and intertextual relationshipsUniting scholars and artists who have built the field of Philip Roth studies from the ground up along with emergent scholars from around the world, this Handbook includes chapter summaries, study questions, and an author biography and timeline that includes key dates in Roth’s life and publication history. It also contains a bibliography of secondary sources for further reading as well as an overview of film and television adaptations.
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Philip Roth
A landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of Philip Roth (1933–2018), one of America’s most celebrated writers. Born in Newark, New Jersey—where his short stories and books were often set—Roth wrote with ambition and awareness of what was required to produce great literature. No writer was more dedicated to his craft, even as he was rubbing shoulders with the Kennedys and engaging in a spate of famous and infamous romances. And yet, as much as Roth wrote about sex and self, he viewed himself as socially withdrawn, living much like an “unchaste monk” (his words). Zipperstein explores the unprecedented range of Roth’s work—from “Goodbye, Columbus” and Portnoy’s Complaint to the Pulitzer Prize–winning American Pastoral and The Plot Against America. Drawing on extensive archival materials and over one hundred interviews, including conversations with Roth about his life and work, Zipperstein provides an intimate and insightful look at one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers, placing his work in the context of his obsessions, as well as American Jewishness, freedom, and sexuality.
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Philip Roth Considered
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Unpacking My Father's Bookstore
Unpacking My Father’s Bookstore brings to life the history of J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica, which was a microcosm of the Los Angeles Jewish community from 1966 to 1994 and one of the premier Jewish bookstores in the United States. Blending critical analysis with a personal account of growing up in his father’s bookstore, and connecting both to larger forces that helped shape Jewish and American book retailing in the twentieth-century, Laurence Roth crafts a richly felt narrative about his family’s Jewish experience in America. It is a reminder, too, that while most independent bookstores like J. Roth Bookseller disappear from history, these retailers often had outsized effects on their communities. Breaking with conventional modes of scholarship, Unpacking My Father’s Bookstore tells a unique and troubled story that rarely gets told, one that is both personal and analytical, theoretical but rooted in the everyday.
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Philip Roth
This is a collection of original essays on Philip Roth offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of recent texts. Philip Roth has without doubt been one of the most important writers of fiction in the United States during the latter part of the twentieth century. "Philip Roth" collects new essays by noted Roth scholars on three essential novels appearing in recent years, "American Pastoral" (1997), "The Human Stain" (2000), and "The Plot Against America" (2004). The volume illuminates Roth's multilayered perceptions of twentieth-century America as a place, a culture, and an idea that shapes its inhabitants in profound ways. Focusing on such topics as ethnicity, gender, race, the family, trauma, history, and narrative form, the essays collected here offer fresh readings of Roth's penetrating explorations of American selfhood. The contributors probe this American Jewish writer's insights into the paradoxes of freedom and self-determination, the politics of identity, especially as defined by racial or ethnic affiliation, and the possibilities available for self-definition and transformation within the context of American history and culture.This series offers up-to-date guides to the recent work of major contemporary North American authors. Written by leading scholars in the field, each book presents a range of original interpretations of three key texts published since 1990, showing how the same novel may be interpreted in a number of different ways. These informative, accessible volumes will appeal to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, facilitating discussion and supporting close analysis of the most important contemporary American and Canadian fiction.
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Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth
From the moment that his debut book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), won him the National Book Award, Philip Roth has been among the most influential and controversial writers of our age. Now the author of more than twenty novels, numerous stories, two memoirs, and two books of literary criticism, Roth has used his writing to continually reinvent himself and in doing so to remake the American literary landscape. This Companion provides the most comprehensive introduction to his works and thought in a collection of newly commissioned essays from distinguished scholars. Beginning with the urgency of Roth's early fiction and extending to the vitality of his most recent novels, these essays trace Roth's artistic engagement with questions about ethnic identity, postmodernism, Israel, the Holocaust, sexuality, and the human psyche itself. With its chronology and guide to further reading, this Companion will be essential for new and returning Roth readers, students and scholars.
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