• Novel Dialogue 5.2 Writing the Counter-book: Joshua Cohen with Eugene Sheppard (JP)

    Author(s):
    Joshua Cohen, John Plotz, Eugene Sheppard
    Date:
    2023
    Subject(s):
    Literature, Criticism
    Item Type:
    Podcast
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/crkx-e251
    Abstract:
    Eugene Sheppard joins his Brandeis colleague John Plotz to speak with Joshua Cohen about The Netanyahus. Is the 2021 novel a Pulitzer-winning bravura story of the world’s worst job interview? Or is it a searing indictment of ethno-nationalist Zionism–and the strange act of pretense whereby American Jewish writers and thinkers in postwar America pretended that Israel and its more extreme ethno-nationalist strains didn’t concern them? Cohen dramatizes the return of that repressed by imagining the family of the Benzion Netanyahu (actual medieval Spanish historian and father of Israel’s past and present Prime Minister Bibi) landing itself on a would-be assimilated American Jewish family ripped straight from the pages of a Philip Roth or Bernard Malamud novel. With John and Eugene, Joshua dissects the legacy of earlier American Jewish writers like Cynthia Ozick, and offers finer details of how Ze’ev Jabotinksy‘s bellicose views would ultimately take hold in Israel, wisecracking his way to a literally jaw-dropping conclusion….
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    Pub. URL:
    https://noveldialogue.org/2023/04/20/5-2-writing-the-counter-book-joshua-cohen-with-eugene-sheppard-jp/
    Publisher:
    Society for Novel Studies
    Pub. Date:
    04/20/2023
    Episode:
    5.2
    Status:
    Published
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