Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:53:18 +0200Philip Roth’s crusade to help Czechoslovak dissident writers under Communismhttps://english.radio.cz/philip-roths-crusade-help-czechoslovak-dissident-writers-under-communism-8160312© 2026 Radio Prague International Towering Jewish-American author Philip Roth has died at the age of 85. And while most of the tributes will rightly focus on his many prize winning works over 60 years, there was another aspect to his life as well: the timely help he gave to dissident Czechoslovak writers after 1968 and the crushing of the so-called Prague Spring. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/roth_philip.jpg?timestamp=1590459245 Philip Roth’s crusade to help Czechoslovak dissident writers under Communism https://english.radio.cz/philip-roths-crusade-help-czechoslovak-dissident-writers-under-communism-8160312 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9