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Don­ald Weber

Don­ald Weber writes about Jew­ish Amer­i­can lit­er­a­ture and pop­u­lar cul­ture. He divides his time between Brook­lyn and Mohe­gan Lake, NY.

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Philip Roth: Why Write? Col­lect­ed Non­fic­tion 1960 – 2013 (The Library of America)
Philip Roth
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Search­ing For Wallenberg
Alan Lelchuk
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Dias­po­ras of the Mind: Jew­ish and Post­colo­nial Writ­ing and the Night­mare of History
Bryan Cheyette
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The Last Flight of Poxl West: A Novel
Daniel Tor­day
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The Betray­ers
David Bez­mozgis
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A Replace­ment Life
Boris Fish­man
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Mark L. Smith
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Dean J. Franco
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Who We Are: On Being (And Not Being) a Jew­ish Amer­i­can Writer
Derek Rubin, ed.
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Telling the Lit­tle Secrets: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Writ­ing Since the 1980’s
Janet Handler Burstein
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A Schol­ar’s Tale: Intel­lec­tu­al Jour­ney of a Dis­placed Child of Europe
Geoffrey Hartman
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Amer­i­can Tal­mud: The Cul­tur­al Work of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Fiction
Ezra Cappell
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Exiles on Main Street: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Writ­ers and Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary Culture
Julian Levinson
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The Free World
David Bezmozgis
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Ken Koltun-Fromm

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Interview

‘Philip Roth: The Biog­ra­phy’ — A Con­ver­sa­tion with Blake Bailey

Don­ald Weber
April 6, 2021
Interview

Inter­view: David Bezmozgis

Don­ald Weber
September 29, 2014

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