Two great American Jewish writers from New Jersey. Photo by Karjean Levine/Getty Images/Douglas Elbinger/Getty Images By Talya Zax March 20, 2026 Philip Roth and Judy Blume were born five years apart in the 1930s. Both grew up in New Jersey, in the crucible of Jewish American suburban assimilation. Both were haunted by the Holocaust, news […]
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