To Jerusalem And Back: A Personal Account - Softcover

Bellow, Saul

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9780140044812: To Jerusalem And Back: A Personal Account

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140044817 ISBN 13: 9780140044812

Publisher: Penguin, 1977

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Bellow, Saul. To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account. Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1977. 11 x 18cm. 182 pages. Original softcover. Paper age-darkened and slightly foxed, otherwise in very good condition. From the library of swiss - american - irish poet Chuck Kruger. Nobel laureate Saul Bellow's revealing interviews and meditations, steeped in history and literature, on the unique spirit and challenges of Israel. A powerful, stimulating testament, To Jerusalem and Back is a rigorous attempt to come to grips with Israel's history and future. Immersing himself in the landscape and culture of this small state in perpetual crisis, Bellow records the opinions, passions, and dreams of Israelis of varying viewpoints - Yitzak Rabin, Amos Oz, the editor of the largest Arab-language newspaper in Israel, a kibbutznik escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto - and adds his own reflections on being Jewish in the twentieth century. Saul Bellow's journey is not merely an exploration of a very beautiful and very troubled city; it is a major literary work, and an urgently important one. [Penguin Books]

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Bellow evokes places, ideas, people on the edge of history, an inch from disaster, yet brimming with argument and words . An impassioned and thoughtful book. The New York Times Book Review
Essentially a plea for a greater understanding of the state of Israel by one of its most articulate admirers. The Times"

"Bellow evokes places, ideas, people...on the edge of history, an inch from disaster, yet brimming with argument and words.... An impassioned and thoughtful book." -The New York Times Book Review

"Essentially a plea for a greater understanding of the state of Israel by one of its most articulate admirers." -The Times

About the Author:

Saul Bellow was born in Lachine, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, in 1915, and was raised in Chicago. He attended the University of Chicago, received his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology, did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, and served in the Merchant Marine during World War II. To Jerusalem and Back was his first work of non-fiction.

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