Naftali Bennett Should Ask for an Enduring American Commitment to Israel’s Control over the Golan Heights
Mixed messages could lead to war.
July 2, 2021
Two Jewish Fantasy Novels, Despite Their Respective Charms, Are Satisfied with Superficiality
A Tel Aviv hipster in King Arthur’s court.
Gavriel Savit’s English-language The Way Back and Masha Zur-Glozman’s Hebrew-language Satisfying the Dragon are both, in their own ways, Jewish-themed fantasy novels. In the first, characters from a 19th-century Russian shtetl confront demons and the supernatural, while in the second the 21st-century protagonist travels to the 13th century to have an affair with French nobleman. Reviewing both, Michael Weingrad finds “dark delights” as well as “weaknesses” in The Way Back:
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