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Judas is the final novel by Israeli author Amos Oz, first published in 2014. The novel's story is set in 1959–1960 Jerusalem and follows the student Shmuel Asch. Plot. Amos Oz's novel Judas unfolds in 1959–1960 Jerusalem, following Shmuel Ash, a student who becomes entangled in the lives of an elderly man, Gershom Wald, and his housemate, Atalia Abravanel.
Dec 7, 2016 · Amos Oz’s “Judas” reconsiders the label of “traitor.” John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs.
Nov 8, 2016 · Hardcover – November 8, 2016. Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the best-selling A Tale of Love and Darkness. Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named ...
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Jan 1, 2022 · Judas. "Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the best-selling A Tale of Love and Darkness. Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald.
Mar 14, 2017 · Judas by Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas De Lange. reviewed by Yahya Chaudhry “If there is one proper noun which has become a common noun,” G.K. Chesterton wrote in his book The New Jerusalem, “it is certainly the name of Judas … the name is known everywhere merely as the name of a traitor.” Indeed, the name Judas is on the lips of ...
Sep 15, 2016 · Amos Oz purports that Judas was not a traitor at all and instead was Jesus's greatest supporter. In fact, he argues, Judas was really the first, only, and greatest Christian of all. (Reading the progression of thought for this wildly subversive conclusion is worth the price of the book alone.
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Nov 8, 2016 · Judas. Amos Oz. HarperCollins, Nov 8, 2016 - Fiction - 320 pages. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER and winner of the International Literature Prize. At once an exquisite love story and a coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title, Judas is one of Amos Oz’s most powerful novels.
