BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published April 9, 2021
First, full disclosure: I have been an unabashed admirer of the acclaimed novelist Philip Roth throughout my long career at the Jewish Light. Roth, the tormented genius of American Jewish letters, who earned every major literary award except for the...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 31, 2018
“At any event, all I can do with my story is tell it. And tell it and tell it.” —Philip Roth in “My Life as a Man”Acclaimed Jewish writer Philip Roth’s recent passing hit me like a death in the family. Like many American Jewish males of...
AMHERST, Mass. (JTA) — Philip Roth lent to American literature a singular, unapologetic voice to which nothing was sacred. His fiction critiqued everything from fascism to Jewish bourgeois assimilation to political puritanism to Jewish boyhood to the...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published August 10, 2016
Philip Roth’s more than 30 novels have earned him every literary award except the Nobel Prize in Literature but have rarely served as the basis of successful films. “Goodbye Columbus” was a commercial success and entertaining, but “Portnoy’s...
BY SUSAN FADEM, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published April 21, 2011
From a simple nudge, oft-repeated, a 500-page volume took shape. "When are you going to do the next ‘Harvest' anthology?" professor emeritus Robert (Bob) Kohn would ask one of his exercise buddies, Howard Schwartz. During those mutual moments of huffing...
