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Florida district pulls many Jewish and Holocaust books, including Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’
The Orlando-area district was the latest to purge Jewish- and Holocaust-themed books from the shelves in fear of a state law forbidding explicit content. (JTA) – A global bestseller by a Jewish ...
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Herbert Gold, novelist who mined his own Jewish upbringing, dies at 99
When the story was left out of the 1963 anthology “Great Jewish Short Stories,” he complained to the volume’s editor, his friend and future Nobelist Saul Bellow. “I said, Saul, you told me ...
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Series 1
Somerset Maugham found his opening lines in the bath. Edith Sitwell wrote in bed. Saul Bellow stood on his head to take a break. This funny, wide-ranging compendium by Mason Currey includes the ...