Alan Sillitoe, the ‘non-Jewish Jew’

From TheJC.com:

Alan Sillitoe, the novelist, who has died aged 82, often spoke of his love for Jewish culture and Israel.

Married to American Jewish poet Ruth Fainlight, Nottingham-born Mr Sillitoe was one of Britain’s best-known novelists and famous as one of the 1950s “Angry Young Men”, though it was a label he disliked.

Mr Sillitoe’s father was an often violent factory worker, and his mother, frequently attacked by his father, sometimes resorted to prostitution to feed the family.

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