"Dispute Incarnate": Philip Roth's <i>Operation Shylock</i>, the Demjanjuk Trial, and Eyewitness Testimony
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عنوان ژورنال: Philip Roth Studies
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1547-3929,1940-5278
DOI: 10.3200/prss.3.2.115-130