Premise: as the background music for this article, don’t imagine klezmer. Philip Roth listened to this genre of traditional Jewish music only around the age of sixty and therefore, after seeing the BBC documentary dedicated to himself (Philip Roth Unleashed), he complained to his friend and producer Alan Yentob: “With that little music of yours with violins you transmit the wrong idea ». To tell about his childhood in the Weequahic neighborhood, Newark, New Jersey, some classics from Billy Eckstine’s jazz or Sarah Vaughan’s bebop would have been much better … And here it is, right from the first pages...