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October 8, 2020

Revisiting Amos Oz’s “Baggy Monster” of a Memoir

Israelis’ love-hate relationship with the late novelist.

At the time of his death two years ago, Amos Oz was almost certainly Israel’s most significant literary figure. But as his fellow novelist Ruby Namdar observes, Israelis have had an ambivalent relationship with Oz, holding him up as “a symbol—almost a fetish—of who we Israelis thought we were or fancied ourselves to be.” But at some point, Israelis soured on him:

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