88.12

From Project Mailer
Norman Mailer: Works and Days
Navigation
Frontmatter
PrefaceLennon IntroductionLucas IntroductionAcknowledgments and Appreciations
Bibliographies
First EditionsKey TextsBibliographiesBiographiesCriticismCultural Backgrounds
Works
Works IndexNM’s IntroductionsThe Big BiteMailer for MayorAbbott Affair
Days
Days IndexImportant Dates
Index
Index of NamesWorks CategoriesDays Categories
Wikipedia book BooksProject page Projects

“Norman Mailer: The Tough Guy is Really a Cuddly Jewish Teddy Bear.” Profile-interview by Pearl Sheffy Gefen. Lifestyles (International Edition), Vol. 92, 62–64. Mailer was interviewed by this Jewish cultural magazine during a visit to Montreal about his film version of Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17), and spoke of his film and his Jewishness: “Being Jewish is a whole inner way of life, and the Holocaust took away any possibility of telling myself I wasn’t Jewish.”