Literary giant Philip Roth—a Pulitzer-winning novelist who was Jewish, or a Jewish writer who won a Pulitzer?

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Amidst the veritable museum of objects, art and memorabilia that Letty Cottin Pogrebin collects and treasures, a print called Our Foremothers beckons, boldly etched with