Operation Shylock: A Confession | Social Concerns
Despite the difficulties encountered by the reader in attempting to separate Roth's delicately thin wall between the real and the fictional, the novel does present a number of sharply defined issues. In earlier works. Roth had created and focused upon Alexander Portnoy and Nathan Zuckerman, for example, as Jewish men; in Operation Shylock, however, the writer concerns himself with an entire Jewish nation, Israel. Thus, beneath Roth's fictional camouflage one finds the 1988 trial of John Demjanjuk, the Cleveland auto-worker extradited to Jerusalem and accused of operating the gas...
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