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David Grossman • A Horse Walks into a Bar
“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.*
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Zalmen Gradowski.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda has paved the way;
Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
“It is easier to swim in the sea than in a bathtub.”
Tom Segev • A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
He published the work under his recently adopted pseudonym, Shai Agnon.18 In 1966, he would win Israel’s first Nobel Prize.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Alfred Dreyfus
Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
“I am that I am,”
Tom Segev • A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
The radiance of personality, I thought. The inner glow. Or the inner darkness. The secret, the tremble of singularity.