In the Land of Israel: EssaysHMH, 1993 M10 31 - 304 pages A snapshot of Israel and the West Bank in the 1980s, through the voices of its inhabitants, from the National Jewish Book Award–winning author of Judas. Notebook in hand, renowned author and onetime kibbutznik Amos Oz traveled throughout his homeland to talk with people—workers, soldiers, religious zealots, aging pioneers, desperate Arabs, visionaries—asking them questions about Israel’s past, present, and future. Observant or secular, rich or poor, native-born or new immigrant, they shared their points of view, memories, hopes, and fears, and Oz recorded them. What emerges is a distinctive portrait of a changing nation and a complex society, supplemented by Oz’s own observations and reflections, that reflects an insider’s view of a country still forming its own identity. In the Land of Israel is “an exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israeli society that have generally been concealed by polemical formulas” (The New York Times). |
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... Hebrew, and English. "Eriz a meshuggener—he's crazy. He came back here from Brussels mit di gantze mishpocheh—with his whole family. Poor Esther." A Brooklyn accent in a figure from Lodz or Krakow. The other woman, behind the fence ...
... Hebrew, and English. "Eriz a meshuggener—he's crazy. He came back here from Brussels mit di gantze mishpocheh—with his whole family. Poor Esther." A Brooklyn accent in a figure from Lodz or Krakow. The other woman, behind the fence ...
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... Hebrews, or about the blessings of organic vegetarianism. Almost every man was a kind of messiah, eager to crucify his opponents and willing to be crucified for his own faith in turn. All of them have gone. Or changed their minds. Or ...
... Hebrews, or about the blessings of organic vegetarianism. Almost every man was a kind of messiah, eager to crucify his opponents and willing to be crucified for his own faith in turn. All of them have gone. Or changed their minds. Or ...
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... Hebrew, ancient hatreds simmer and bubble, controversies in the name of God entangled, as in days gone by, in enmities born from lust for authority and dominion: Mitnagdim versus Hasidim, the followers of one rebbe versus the followers ...
... Hebrew, ancient hatreds simmer and bubble, controversies in the name of God entangled, as in days gone by, in enmities born from lust for authority and dominion: Mitnagdim versus Hasidim, the followers of one rebbe versus the followers ...
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... Hebrew literature, Mendele and Berdyczewsky, Bialik and Brenner and the others, would have banished this reality from the world around them and from within their souls. In an eruption of rebellion and loathing, they portrayed this world ...
... Hebrew literature, Mendele and Berdyczewsky, Bialik and Brenner and the others, would have banished this reality from the world around them and from within their souls. In an eruption of rebellion and loathing, they portrayed this world ...
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... Hebrew word bitachon.) In a conversation twenty years ago, my teacher Dov Sadan said that Zionism was nothing more than a passing episode, a temporary mundane phenomenon of history and politics, but that Orthodox Judaism would re-emerge ...
... Hebrew word bitachon.) In a conversation twenty years ago, my teacher Dov Sadan said that Zionism was nothing more than a passing episode, a temporary mundane phenomenon of history and politics, but that Orthodox Judaism would re-emerge ...
Contents
THE FINGER OF GOD? | |
JUST A PEACE | |
THE TENDER AMONG YOU AND VERY DELICATE | |
AN ARGUMENT ON LIFE AND DEATH A | |
AN ARGUMENT ON LIFE AND DEATH B | |
THE DAWN | |
A COSMIC JEW | |
A MIDWINTER EPILOGUE | |
SOME REACTIONS TO IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL | |
A POSTSCRIPT TEN YEARS LATER | |
Back Matter | |
Back Cover | |
Spine | |
ON LIGHT AND 5HADE AND LOVE | |
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