Blogs Categories: Jewish American History

The House I Live In: Philip Roth’s America

May 29, 2020

By: Anne Holmes

For Jewish American Heritage Month, Manuscript Division curator Barbara Bair explores Philip Roth’s novel "The Plot Against America" (and its recent television adaptation). Set between 1940 and 1942, when Roth himself was a child, the novel examines the status of being Jewish and being American in a particularly perilous time period in American and world history.

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Women’s History: Grace Paley’s Family Tree

March 31, 2020

By: Anne Holmes

For Women's History Month, Library of Congress Manuscript Division curator Barbara Bair discusses the life and work of Grace Paley—short story and nonfiction writer, poet, and political activist.

Posted in: From the Catbird Seat