To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) - Softcover

Bellow, Saul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141180757 ISBN 13: 9780141180755

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1998

Synopsis

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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators."

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Here you sit at dinner with charming people in a dining room like any other. Yet you know that your hostess has lost a son, that her sister lost children in the 1973 war...in the domestic ceremony of passed dishes and filled glasses the thoughts ofa destructive enemy are hard to grasp. What you do know is that there is one fact of Jewish life left unchanged by the creation of a Jewish State: 'You cannot take your right to love for granted...'

Review:

By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

"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 this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0141180757
• ISBN 13: 9780141180755
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192