Emanuel Litvinoff and English excuses for “criticism” of Jews.

The persistence of a strange prejudice.

Prejudice “elevated to an idiotic principle.”

Groucho called the anti-Semitic expatriate a “British poet from St. Louis.”

Seven decades of Tradition.

On the novelist’s letters and a “repulsive category.”

In a late-life friendship of sorts, the great American Jewish comedian and the great Anglo-American poet (and anti-Semite) failed to overcome their essential selves.