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March 18, 2025

Saul Bellow’s Israel, and Its Unchanged Enemies

To Jerusalem and Back.

In 1975, the American Jewish novelist Saul Bellow took a trip to Israel. The result was To Jerusalem and Back, his only book-length work of nonfiction. Elliot Kaufman revisits Bellow’s “deep and reflective, pragmatic and piercing,” reflections on the Jewish state:

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