Hello.
Yes, Norman Mailer is Jewish.
From The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short
Story:
"In The Armies of the Night Mailer says that he was raised 'a nice
Jewish boy from Brooklyn.'"
Hosted by University of Alaska - Fairbanks English Department:
http://www.uaf.edu/english/faculty/heyne/mailer.html
From "Norman Mailer His Life And Works: Quotes From Norman Mailer":
"On Judaism : 'I am very Jewish ... I have a Jewish temperament, I
have a Jewish mind ... I am inquiring and fascinated with the
dialectic, fascinated with argument, counter argument and the argument
that comes out of the counter argument ... I am not at all pious, I am
superstitious so to that degree I am a little bit of an orthodox Jew
but not at all in that I am not close to the ceremonies and I am in no
way a formal Jew but in every way I consider myself Jewish.'"
Source: KC's Norman Mailer page, hosted by iol.ie:
http://www.iol.ie/~kic/mailer3.html
search strategy: "norman mailer", jewish
I hope this helps. |
