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In the Land of Israel, by Amos Oz

- Abstract

The history of the state of Israel is (unfortunately) so dramatic that the great issues always threaten to obscure the subtleties of daily and individual life. Contemporary Israeli writers tend to resent this encroachment of the collective drama on privat



About the Author

Ruth R. Wisse is the Martin Peretz professor of Yiddish and professor of comparative literature at Harvard. She is the author most recently of Jews and Power (Nextbook/Schocken).