Howard Jacobson’s novel on British antisemitism is bold, funny – and sadly timely
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Howard Jacobson’s finest novels rigorously and riotously examine the complexities of British Jewish life through a tragicomic lens. “Jew-baiting was what it was,” says a character in 2006’s Kalooki Nights. “And we were all Jews who were doing it.”
Jacobson provides a variation on this joke in his 2010 Booker prize-winning The Finkler Question, when the eponymous Sam Finkler declares he has no antisemitic friends. “Yes, you do,” his friend Libor replies. “The Jewish ones.”
In many ways, Ja
Jacobson provides a variation on this joke in his 2010 Booker prize-winning The Finkler Question, when the eponymous Sam Finkler declares he has no antisemitic friends. “Yes, you do,” his friend Libor replies. “The Jewish ones.”
In many ways, Ja
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