To Jerusalem and Back, Saul Bellow
To Jerusalem and Back, Saul Bellow
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To Jerusalem and Back
A Personal Account

Author: Saul Bellow

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 7 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/10/2011

Synopsis

This extraordinary book is the result of Saul Bellows sojourn in Israel in 1975. A personal record of his stayhis experiences and impressionsas well as a meditation, it crackles with wit and controversy on Americas relationship with this embattled country. Using quick sketches and vignettes, Bellow captures the personal opinions, passions, and dreams of several Israelis, and he also adds to these his own reflections on being Jewish in the twentieth century. The varying viewpoints of those he encounters and interviews offer a revealing look at the history and challenges of Israel, and Bellows passionate storytelling draws listeners in to share in his experience.

About Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (1915–2005), author of numerous novels, novellas, and stories, was the only novelist to receive three National Book Awards. He also received the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction. During the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict, Bellow served as a war correspondent for Newsday. He taught at New York University, Princeton, and the University of Minnesota and was chairman of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carla on August 06, 2021

Uauh.... what a writer... Just a small mouthpiece: "Should communism sweep Italy, would the Pope move to Jerusalem? Rather, says one of the prelates, he would stay in Rome and become Party Secretary. And there we are, Kissinger has entirely wrecked Russia's Middle East policy and the Pope is about t......more

Goodreads review by Josh on August 30, 2020

Read this over the weekend in, appropriately, Jerusalem. Bellow would seem to have some advantage over the minions who have put together their thoughts on ancient ruins, futility of religious hatred, the mystery of the Orient, etc. - after all, he speaks Yiddish (though apparently not much Hebrew),......more

Goodreads review by Gary on May 29, 2016

Well known , Nobel prize winning author , put his pen to the service of recording his 1975 visit to the Land of Israel and his thoughts on the dillemas faced by Israel at the time , and on world politics at large in the mid 1970's. The author puts down his observations , from his thoughts about Hassi......more

Goodreads review by Harry on January 04, 2020

This is a book of assorted ramblings of Bellow's extended visit to Istael in 1976. Bellow has no connection to Israel or its politics other than being an assimilated Jew. But as a Nobel Laureate, he has many literary and political friends and aquaintances in high places who offer him their often con......more

Goodreads review by Kay on March 24, 2020

A political travel book that is somehow both incredibly outdated and currently modern and relevant at the same time. (Which is super depressing actually. The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?) And while I liked Saul Bellow's writing here (I'm not familiar with his other work), and......more

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