9780141180755
To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account share button
Saul Bellow
Format Paperback
Dimensions 5.24 (w) x 7.92 (h) x 0.55 (d)
Pages 192
Publisher Penguin Group (USA)
Publication Date May 1998
ISBN 9780141180755
Book ISBN 10 0141180757
About Book
Here you sit at dinner with charming people in a dining room like any other. Yet you know that your hostess has lost a son, that her sister lost children in the 1973 war...in the domestic ceremony of passed dishes and filled glasses the thoughts of a destructive enemy are hard to grasp. What you do know is that there is one fact of Jewish life left unchanged by the creation of a Jewish State: 'You cannot take your right to love for granted...'
Reviews

Irving Howe

Steeped in the skepticisms of Chicago but still responsive to the war-cries of ideology, Bellow proves a keep listener. Like every other visitor to Israel, he soon tumbles into "a gale of conversation." He loves it: it makes him feel at home.
— The New York Times, 1976