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NETANYAHUS : An Account of a mirror and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family

By: Language: English Publication details: London Fitzcarraldo 2022/01/01Edition: 1Description: 239ISBN:
  • 9781804270202
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • F COH/NE
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Lending Lending Ernakulam Public Library Fiction Fiction F COH/NE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available E198949

Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959–1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers

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