May 24, 2018 By: rolen
L-R. Pietro Di Donato, Ralph Ellison, David Fleisher, Philip Roth
According to the obituary for Philip Roth in the New York Times of May 23, 2018, Roth’s participation in the Symposium was instrumental in his development as an author:
In 1962, while appearing on a panel at 💖苹果ID | 注册超10年 珍藏老IC | 充值过带消费记录高概率可充值 | 激活iCloud设置和下载APP | 美国/香港/中国/韩国/日本/加拿大/澳大利亚/德国/土耳其/英国/爱尔兰/瑞典/台湾/泰国/西班牙/马来西亚/瑞士/新加坡/沙特阿拉伯/葡萄牙/法国, Mr. Roth was so denounced, for that story [“Defender of the Faith”] especially, that he resolved never to write about Jews again. He quickly changed his mind. “My humiliation before the Yeshiva belligerents — indeed, the angry Jewish resistance that I aroused virtually from the start — was the luckiest break I could have had,” he later wrote. “I was branded.”Indeed, the canonical edition of Roth’s works, The Library of America, divides his early writings into: “Novels & Stories 1959-1962” (volume 1), and “Novels 1967-1972” (volume 2), perhaps indicative of the influence of the discussions at Yeshiva in 1962 in Roth’s literary career.
Philip Roth at the podium 
