Description
A journey through Israel in 1975 becomes, in Saul Bellow’s hands, a searching meditation on what it means to belong—to a people, a faith, and a contested homeland. Moving from vivid street-level encounters to sharper intellectual arguments, he gathers the hopes, fears, and convictions of Israelis across the political and cultural spectrum, while turning inward to ask how Jewish identity is shaped by the pressures of the twentieth century. Part travel narrative and part cultural inquiry, the book probes the tangled relationship between faith and modernity, identity and nationhood, and the moral weight of history. With his characteristic wit and intellectual urgency, Bellow invites readers to follow Jerusalem not only as a destination, but as a question that refuses easy answers.
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paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2008
192 pages
ISBN: 9780141188874
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First Published
1976
Language
eng
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