美国作家索尔·贝娄在小说《赛姆勒先生的行星》中借助一位老迈的犹太大屠杀幸存者赛姆勒先生的经历呈现出主人公犹太性的发掘过程。这位老先生的形象是一位非常传统保守的犹太人,其血统意义犹太性由外部力量决定,由犹太大屠杀和以色列六日战争集中代表。其犹太性并不仅仅具有血统意义,还可以扩展到被边缘化的他者社会意义。这种边缘化不是一种被动造成的局面,而是一种主动形成的孤立。作家通过赛姆勒先生孤独沉默的形象、群体异化、死亡等存在主义话题具体化等层面刻画了人类的精神困境,探讨了人类存在的境遇,具有世界性的普遍意义。 American writer Saul Bellow used the experience of Mr. Thamel, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor, to reveal the Jewish character of the protagonist in the novel “Mr. Symmel’s Planet.” The old gentleman is pictured as a very traditional Jewish man whose Jewish origin, determined by external forces, is dominated by the Jewish Holocaust and the Six Day War in Israel. Its Jewishness is not only of great significance, but also extends to the social significance of the marginalized others. This marginalization is not a passive situation, but a kind of active isolation. The writer characterizes the spiritual dilemma of human through the image of Mr. Symmel’s loneliness and silence, the alienation of groups, and the existentialism such as death. It explores the human existence and has worldwide universal significance.