Samuel Roth, Infamous Modernist

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381 indeX Abernethy, Milton, 86, 364 Abramson, Ben, xxv, 93, 99, 190, 332n67, 335n130 Ad Interim copyright, 72 Advertising circulars, xviii, 118, 161, 196, 221, 225, 237, 257, 262, 288, 305; cited as “pandering ,” 123, 166–68, 216–17; emphasis on gay, fetish, flagellation, and pedophiliac materials , 118, 220–22; SR’s cynicism about prurience and degeneration therein, 122–24, 212, 215–17, 296 (see also Degeneration) “Advice on Choosing a Mistress” (B. Franklin ), 92 Aleichem, Sholem, 2, 5, 8, 35, 98, 320n10 Aliases and pseudonyms, SR’s, xxi, 95, 112, 162, 194, 304, 338; Norman Lockridge, 160, 249, 292, 315, 316; J. A. Nocross, 101, 336; Francis Page, 69; Roger St. Clair, 95; David Zorn, 13, 179, 319 Alter, Joseph Leib (father-in-law), 17, 20 Alter, Pauline. See Roth, Pauline Alter, Robert, 296, 335n148 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 92, 207, 264 American Hebrew, The, xxvi, 51, 53, 54, 323n77 Anecdota Americana (revised and pub. By Wm. Faro), 111, 127, 133, 159, 307–8, 309, 337n16, 339n45, 351n67 Ansky, S., 185, 363; The Dybbuk, 185–86 Ansonia Hotel, 95, 335n143 Anthiel, Böske, 336n153 Arendt, Hannah, 263 A. R. Paulsam Co., 103 Arrests, 103–5, 107, 127, 163–65, 208, 245–48, 258–59 Artaud, Antonin, 216, 230, 293 Asch, Sholem, xxxi, 19, 40, 98, 274, 280, 352n76. See also God of Vengeance Athenaeum (publishers), 290 Atlas, Nicholas, 210–11, 245, 258–63 “At the Sign of the Mocki-Grisball,” 73–75 Austin, Roger, 117–20, 336, 339 Bad debts, SR’s, 56 Baker, Josephine, 251 Barnes, Djuna, 39, 67 Battles, Chester, 169, 345n6 Bayonne, NJ (Standard Oil strike), 29, 31 Bayros, Franz von, 161, 340 Beach, Sylvia, 68, 69, 70, 79, 93, 99, 102, 120, 121, 155, 330nn23, 30, 332n75, 336n155, 337n17, 340n75; and Joyce, xvii, 83, 89; and Ulysses, 63–64, 82, 87, 90–91 Beasley, Gertrude, 68–69, 330n25 Beau, 24, 57, 58, 71, 73, 80, 93, 97, 129, 136, 185, 194, 329n6, 330n36 Beilis, Mendel, 54, 376 Bell, Ralcy Husted, 99, 10–11 Bellow, Saul, xvii, xxi, xxii, 187, 321n35, 342n14 Belmont Pub. Co., 288 Bennett, Arnold, 79, 93 Berenice of Cilia, 141, 170 Bialik, C. N., 48, 50, 98, 330 Bismarck, Otto von, 145, 147, 149, 243 Black Hawk Press, 159–61, 162, 166, 168, 201 Bloom, Leopold, comparisons of SR to, xxi, 37, 100, 156, 175, 186, 299 Bodenheim, Maxwell, 40, 199, 202, 211, 212–13, 217–18, 228–29 Book Auction bookshop, 103, 105, 109, 325n8, 332n75 Bookman, The, 28, 44, 45, 58, 71, 325n28 Bookstores, SR’s, 14, 38–43, 103, 160 Bourdieu, Pierre: “cultural capital” and the marketing of modernism, 93–95 Braithwaite, Stanley, 44 Brandeis, Louis, 52 Britton, Nan, 165 Brody, Alter, 149, 200 Brooklyn Eagle, 247 Brooklyn naval yard. See Duquesne, Frederick “Fritz” Joubert Brussel, Jack, xvii, 77, 103, 105, 109, 136, 137, 139, 151, 167, 342n9, 356n13 Bryan, F. Van Pelt, 264, 265 Bryant, Louise, 321, 40, 165, 323n86 Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman), 61, 119 Buchalter, Lepke, 189 Buffano, Remo, 39 Burlesque, 148 Index 382 Burnett, Whit, 233, 243 Business after 1961, SR’s, 288–91 By the Waters of Manhattan (Reznikoff), xxi, 36, 38–39, 287 Café Royal, 71, 159, 177, 333n95 Calkins, Raymond, 92 Call It Sleep (Henry Roth), 19, 277 Canby, Henry Seidel, 65, 72, 82 Casanova Jr.’s Tales, 68, 69, 73, 136, 306, 307 Case of Mr. Crump, The (Lewishon), 161 Cashin, John C., 261, 266, 267, 270, 304 Celestine: The Diary of a Chambermaid (Faro), 109, 337n16, 339n45, 361n38 Censorship, SR as “hero” in fight against, 264 Cerf, Bennett, 89, 94, 213 Chadbourne, Stanchfield, and Levy (law firm), 79 Chamberlain, Houston S., 145, 147–50, 153, 174 Chambers, Whittaker. See Hiss, Alger Chaplin, Charlie, 92, 263 Cheyney, Ralph, 107, 111, 126 “Child Chasers, The” (Coates), 288 Childs, Grace Hatch, 312, 324n94 Chumbris, Peter N., 256 Citadel Press. See Foner, Philip Clark, Charles E., 261, 263 Clean Books Committee of the Federation of Hungarian Jews, 97 “Clear and present danger” test, 206, 261, 266 Coates, Robert M., 213, 288–89 Communism, 198, 252, 253–55, 287–88. See also Kefauver Subcommittee testimony; United States v. Roth; Winchell, Walter Comstock statutes, 261, 264, 266 Confidential, 220, 253, 289 Coppard, A. E., 81 Cotillo, Salvatore, 128 Counterattack, 255 Crowley, Aleister, 14, 39 Cultural mutation, 95–96, 118 Curl, Samuel, 76, 77 Darby, Myrna, 57, 58, 183, 348n83 Davies, Rhys, 160 Davy, Norman, 160 Degeneration (Nordau), 215–16 Delacey, James, 155 Demons, 37, 151...