ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the category of belief in modern Jewish fiction by thematizing Philip Roth’s novel Operation Shylock as a novel concerned with the history of Jewish fiction and its relationship to the Christian concept of faith. In so doing, it also considers the history of the parable in Jewish literature and the dynamics of belief at stake in Holocaust fiction. It argues that Roth’s novel styles itself as a duplicitous confession in response to the Christian gaze and as a political intervention in the history of Zionism.
