Sublime

Avishai,

“Even unavoidable occupation is corrupting occupation,” he wrote soon after the war in a column for Davar, then the Labor Party newspaper. It was a position he would espouse, along with other Israeli novelists like David Grossman, for decades.*

Zalmen Gradowski.

Vasily Grossman

George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda has paved the way;

“It is easier to swim in the sea than in a bathtub.”

He published the work under his recently adopted pseudonym, Shai Agnon.18 In 1966, he would win Israel’s first Nobel Prize.

Alfred Dreyfus