Archive for November, 2006
Mamet’s Question
By Tom Teicholz at 10 November, 2006, 3:59 pm
David Mamet has written a book, “The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred and the Jews” (Shocken/Nextbook), that is by turns bold, courageous, and outrageous — it is a book that calls Diaspora Jews to the table and asks: “In or Out?”
“The underlying premise of the book,” Mamet told me recently, “is to all Jews: If you [...]
A DIFFERENT ISRAEL
By Tom Teicholz at 7 November, 2006, 2:04 pm
When Israel is discussed these days, more often than not it is in terms of an existential crisis, or “the situation,” or as the subject of international news headlines. However, reading recently published works by three different Israeli fiction authors, Etgar Keret, Benjamin Tammuz and A.B. Yehoshua, is a bracing reminder that there is an [...]
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