''The Bellarosa Connection'' is a 1989 novella by the American author

Saul Bellow Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 July 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only w ...

. The book takes the form of an ongoing dialogue between the Fonstein family about the impact of

the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

. This is an especially significant story as it represents, along with ''

Mr. Sammler's Planet ''Mr. Sammler's Planet'' is a 1970 novel by the American author Saul Bellow. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1971. References External linksat the Nobel Prize websiteSaul Bellow Society {{DEFAULTSORT:Mister Sammler's Plan ...

'', Bellow's most significant commentary on the Holocaust. In the book, the Bellarosa Connection signifies Billy Rose's Madison Square Garden benefit for the Jews of Europe on the most immediate level, but, more deeply, becomes a point of departure for Bellow to consider the American Jewish response to European Jews' experience during World War II. As Bellow's protagonist comes to grips with the past, his experience distances American Jewry's position from that of its European counterparts. The book moves then to Israel in order to present the three major homelands of the World's Jewry.

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1989 American novels Novels by Saul Bellow Novels about the aftermath of the Holocaust {{1980s-Holocaust-novel-stub