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they retreat to a sort of cynical stance. I felt as if I was there. The main character, a university drop-out called Shmuel, had embarked on a dissertation on 'Jewish Views of Jesus' with a special interest in the character of Judas. To his mind, the world’s most famous traitor was, in fact, the world’s first and most devoted Christian. does this book carries a tone of propaganda? For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. As he sees it, here, he can escape. He wants to feel connection to……..something, someone, a girl or a cause. His parents are no longer able to give him financial support; he abandons his research; the Socialist Renewal group falls apart and Yardena rejects him in order to marry a “compliant hydrologist”. Shmuel is a character that touched me from the very beginning. His 3-month stay with an old rabbi and his daughter-in-law shall put his life on a new track. Thank you to the author, Judas Oz, and the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , for this opportunity. He is hired to be company to an elderly man. [From our archives: ‘The Sad Land of Amos Oz’]. This is one of the last major works by Amos Oz (1939-2018). First novel by Oz I ever read, won't be the last one. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2017. Shmuel replies to an ad seeking a part-time caregiver and companion for a seven. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The name and long legacy of Judas Iscariot is exhaustively interrogated in Israeli author Amos Oz's new novel, his first in a decade. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. With his research stalling, and learning that his father’s finances have been ruined over a lost court case he can no longer support his student lifestyle, so he decides to embark on what he hopes will be a coping journey. Older than he is, Wald's daughter in law provides the love interest. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. I am not using the word in the vulgar sense, of course, but rather as in the famous saying of the first Queen Elizabeth of England: ‘I will have here but one mistress and no master.’ ” The thread that ties them together is dark and disturbing — I lost sleep over its imagery — and woven into the fabric of Israel’s bloody history. For his master’s thesis at Hebrew University, 25-year-old Ash is researching “Jewish Views of Jesus.”.

This takes him to an address on the outskirts of Jerusalem, to the house of the now deceased Abravanel, his perplexing widowed daughter Atalia, and Gershom Wald, an aged and crippled academic whose son Atalia had m. Shmuel is a character that touched me from the very beginning. There is another inhabitant of the house where this old man lives. These fascinate Shmuel in their own right, and provide the present of the novel with a set of shifting historical counterweights. I highly recommend this book. I think this is not only Oz's masterpiece but a major literary achievement of our time. “When he died,” Wald explains to Ash, “he was possibly the most lonely and most hated man in Israel.”. by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Judas is the first novel selected for the Amos Oz reading circle established by Natalie Portman. But Shmuel is particularly drawn to the Gospel character of Judas, that foundational figure in the history of Western anti-Semitism. Sharing the isolated household is Atalia Abravanel, an attractive and enigmatic woman in her 40s who was married to Wald’s late son. On the surface, George Saunders and Amos Oz may seem different kinds of writers: one funny, one serious; one whose narrators grasp at meaning, the other master of an old-school, highbrow eloquence. Shealtiel Abravanel’s commitment to this idea means being expelled from the Zionist Executive Committee. I chose this book because of the reputation of Amos Oz worldwide. ), widely considered Israel’s greatest living writer.If there had been no Judas, there would have been no crucifixion and no Christianity. Title bit misleading - I expected the book to be a historical novel on the Judas/Jesus relationship - though reading the title does make sense as one of the themes is treason and one of the final chapters is a reimagining of Judas s final days. This question (how faith might be mistaken as disloyalty), and the other issues it contains (including the ways in which belief can become excessive and therefore a liability), are refracted by Wald and Atalia.

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