Philip Roth and Saul Bellow

Philip Roth and Saul Bellow World War II brought an end to one of the largest genocides in history; the systematic killing of the Jews. Philip Roth and Saul Bellow (one of Roth's mentor) struggle to write about Judaism in America after over six million Jews perished in Europe. Both men have been praised for writing about Jewish people and criticized for writing that some feel is anti-Jewish (anti-Semite). How does Judaism impact the writing of these two men? Do they show Judaism in a positive or negative light? What is the intended moral/message/lesson that Roth and Bellow want audiences to understand from these two stories