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Samuel Roth
Jewish Merchants of Sin and Porn, part 3: Roth v. United States
by Benjamin Garland
“If Roth were not the opportunistic, irascible, and sometimes megalomaniacal idealist he was, the early 1960s advances in freedom of expression would not have happened when they did.” — Jay Gertzman1
SAMUEL ROTH (Hebrew name Mishillim) was born in 1894 in a shtetl in the…
