by my mother in law, who is a professor of feminist studies and Jewish, and who did not like Jewish misogyny such as is frequently, and ardently, expressed in Roth. Portnoy's Complaint being foremost. If one is speaking of Jewish writers who go on and on about the Jewish American experience, I'll take Bellow. Even Potok. Talking of Europeans, Walter Benjamin (if obliquely) and Gershom Scholem.