Dear ZealotsAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 12 November 2019
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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 ideasit 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 Ozcomes a series of three essays: onthe 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 Ozfluid, rich, masterly, and perfectly timed for a world in which polarization and extremism are rising everywhere.The essays werewritten, 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 toeven, as we march toward an uncertain future.
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