jewish men

Coleman Silk, a New England professor forced into retirement on false charges of racism, has a fifty-year-old secret that Philip Roth attempts to decipher in this 1990s novel set against the backdrop of Presidential impeachment and professional witchhunts.

Moses Herzog engages in frantic letter-writing, trying to survive private disasters and those of modern civilization.

Moses Herzog, Ph.D., engages in frantic letter-writing, trying to survive private disasters and those of modern civilization.

Jacob Horowitz visits a friend, a former member of the Belgian underground, and together, the two men share the experiences they had during the Holocaust with Jacob's estranged son.

David Lurie, a young Jewish boy growing up in the Bronx in the years leading up to World War II, learns to deal with the challenges of neighborhood bullies and his own frail health, which gives him the courage to follow his own personal path of belief in spite of opposition.

As Henry Bech travels around the world trying to overcome his writer's block, he manages to stumble onto some of the strangest adventures anyone has ever heard of.

Coleman Silk, a distinguished professor at a small New England college where he has managed over the course of fifty years to make a lot of enemies, experiences a sort of personal liberation when he is forced from his job on false claims of racism -- a charge made all the more ironic due to a secret Silk has been keeping nearly his entire life.