As part of the exhibition Inventories. The Legacy of Salman Schocken (in German)
In his novel The Netanyahus, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Joshua Cohen approaches the subject of Jewish identity with exuberant imagination and comedy.
Read along!
The campus novel with the subtitle An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family is based on a true story – the visit of the historian Ben-Zion Netanyahu to a college on the US East Coast in the winter of 1959–60.
In conversation with literary scholar Sebastian Schirrmeister (University of Hamburg) and Monika Sommerer, head of the JMB library, we will discuss Cohen's masterpiece, which leads us right through the history of Zionism and is perhaps a key to understanding the biography of a very famous family.
The Book
Joshua Cohen: The Netanyahus. An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family. Novel (German version: Die Netanjahus oder vielmehr der Bericht über ein nebensächliches und letztlich sogar unbedeutendes Ereignis in der Geschichte einer sehr berühmten Familie, translated into German by Ingo Herzke, 2023)
Additional information
Meeting point: W. M. Blumenthal Akademie, Klaus Mangold Auditorium Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
Price: €6.00
Reduced price: €3.00
Price: €6.00
Reduced price: €3.00
Dates
July 2025
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