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from Part V - Jewish American Identity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 July 2021
Philip Roth is regularly categorized as a Jewish American writer, a label that was longa source of frustration to the author, who resisted the notion that his work must be viewed through the lens of one facet of his identity. As early as 1963, he affirmed at conference in Israel, “I am not a Jewish writer, I am a writer who is a Jew,” a sentiment he reiterated more than once over the course of his career. Taking into account Roth’s own commentary as well as his contributions to a literary representation of Jewish identity, this chapter will discuss the cultural impetus for and implications of deeming Roth a specifically “Jewish writer” or “Jewish American” writer.
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