The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/saul-bellow/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:16:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Saul Bellow | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/saul-bellow/ 32 32 As landmark Saul Bellow documentary premieres, a look back at his life https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-landmark-saul-bellow-documentary-premieres-a-look-back-at-his-life/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 03:31:52 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2898107 PBS debuts 'The Adventures of Saul Bellow,' first wide-release documentary on the Jewish Nobelist, filmed by Israeli director Asaf Galay and featuring Philip Roth's final interview

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]]> Why Saul Bellow didn’t want to be called a ‘Jewish-American’ writer https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-saul-bellow-didnt-want-to-be-called-a-jewish-american-writer/ Sun, 16 Dec 2018 19:21:47 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1970689 US Jews were a vehicle for the Nobel Laureate to say what it means to be an American, according to biographer Zachary Leader, whose second Bellow volume is now on bookstore shelves

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]]> Media giant traces secular Jewish roots in the leaves of great American authors https://www.timesofisrael.com/media-giant-traces-secular-jewish-roots-in-the-leaves-of-great-american-authors/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:51:15 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1908110 Promoting his new book, former editor-in-chief of Business Week, Stephen Shepard, says writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth 'make it okay' to be a non-religious Jew

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]]> How Saul Bellow broke the WASPs’ hold on literature https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-saul-bellow-broke-the-wasps-hold-on-literature/ Thu, 25 Jun 2015 02:28:18 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1190755 In the first of a two-part biography, Zachary Leader asks whether the son of Russian immigrants, born 100 years ago, was more driven to be an artist or a mentsch

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