Binding: Paperback
Description: An urgent and deeply necessary work Dear Zealots offers three powerful essays that speak directly to our present age on the rise of zealotry in Israel and around the world. Concise evocative Dear Zealots is not just a brilliant book of thoughts and ideas it is a depiction of one man's struggle who for decades has insisted on keeping a sharp strident and lucid perspective in the face of chaos and at times of madness. David Grossman winner of the Man Booker International Prize From the incomparable Amos Oz comes a series of three essays: on the universal nature of fanaticism and its possible cures on the Jewish roots of humanism and the need for a secular pride in Israel and on the geopolitical standing of Israel in the wider Middle East and internationally. Dear Zealots is classic Amos Oz fluid rich masterly and perfectly timed for a world in which polarization and extremism are rising everywhere. The essays were written Oz states "first and foremost" for his grandchildren: they are a patient learned telling of history religion and politics to be thumbed through and studied clung to even as we march toward an uncertain future.
Title: Dear Zealots Letters From A Divided Land
Author(s): Oz Amos
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780358175445
Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/12/2019