{"product_id":"dear-zealots-letters-from-a-divided-land","title":"Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘His parting shot at opposing the storm of fanaticism breaking over our times’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDear Zealots\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an essential collection of three essays written out of a sense of urgency, concern, and a belief that a better future is still possible. It touches on the universal nature of fanaticism and its possible cures; the Jewish roots of humanism and the need for a secular pride in Israel; and the geopolitical standing of Israel in the wider Middle East and internationally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmos Oz boldly puts forward his case for a two-state solution in what he calls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e ‘a question of life and death for the State of Israel’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Wise, provocative, moving and inspiring, these essays illuminate the argument over Israeli, Jewish and human existence, shedding a clear and surprising light on vital political and historical issues, and daring to offer new ways out of a reality that appears to be closed down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Concise, evocative... a brilliant book of thoughts and ideas' David Grossman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award--Modern Jewish Thought and Experience\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Daring ridiculousness may be American Judaism's most important survival tool, the willingness to reach deep and to search both within the tradition and outside it in order to make the religion feel alive...the Israeli novelist Amos Oz praises this quality of Jewishness, the 'anarchist core, the rebellious gene' that prompts constant interpretation, reinterpretation and counterinterpretation.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGal Beckerman, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Amos Oz is one of Israel's most prolific, celebrated writers, capturing the past and exploring the present in more than 30 novels, dozens of essays and hundreds of articles. But his latest book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, may contain his most urgent message yet.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRuth Eglash, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Readers unfamiliar with Israeli author and public intellectual Oz will find this collection of three essays, adapted from a series of lectures, a good introduction to his nuanced perspective...Clear-eyed...Providing a worthy companion volume to Yossi Klein Halevi's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLetters to My Palestinian Neighbor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Oz's book leaves readers with a strong message about the need for a greater societywide openness to doubt and ambiguity.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Three passionate lectures about the state of politics in Israel. In this rumination about the country he loves and whose policies make him ashamed, novelist and peace activist Oz sounds humorous, mournful, enraged, and uplifting...Oz maintains there's rarely been a better moment to make peace than now...Slender but forceful.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Concise, evocative . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDear Zealots \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis not just a 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.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Grossman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Celebrated Israeli novelist Oz writes nonfiction, too, including the three essays collected here, relevant to our polarized, populist world: they treat the nature of fanaticism, the Jewish roots of humanism (and the need for a secular appreciation of Israel), and Israel's geopolitical standing. Oz says he wrote them for his grandchildren, but they're good for us all.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Barbara Hoffert, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e Pre-Pub Alert\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amos Oz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45250238644424,"sku":null,"price":90.0,"currency_code":"ILS","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0507\/3679\/1752\/files\/dear_zalots.jpg?v=1793872980","url":"https:\/\/educationalbookshop.com\/products\/dear-zealots-letters-from-a-divided-land","provider":"EducationalBookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}