The sheet of questions prepared for me by the Wapters read as follows: TEN QUESTIONS FOR NATHAN ZUCKERMAN 1. If you had been living in Nazi Germany in the thirties, would you have written such a story? 2. Do you believe Shakespeare’s Shylock and Dickens’s Fagin have been of no use to anti-Semites? 3. Do you practice Judaism? If so, how? If not, what credentials qualify you for writing about Jewish life for national magazines? 4. Would you claim that the characters in your story represent a fair sample of the kinds of people that make up a typical contemporary community of Jews? 5. In a story
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The judges questions to Nathan regarding the his writing a story about disfunction i a Jewish family
It is his own life experience Does a writerhave th right or duty to use his ow life and tthe people in it as plot material ?
