The Slopes of Lebanon

The Slopes of Lebanon

by Amos Oz
The Slopes of Lebanon

The Slopes of Lebanon

by Amos Oz

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Overview

As well as being one of Israel’s preeminent writers of fiction, Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience in Israel to advocate the creation of a Palestinian state and has been a leading figure of the Peace Now movement since 1977. This superb collection of essays offers Oz’s cogent views on Israel’s offensive into Lebanon in 1982; fanaticism of all stripes; the PLO; Israeli terrorism; the new militarism and the growing intolerance toward the Arab population in Israel; Jewish attitudes toward the Holocaust, and its misappropriation by the right and left alike; Claude Lanzmann’s film Shoah; the dream of Zionism and its failures; and much more.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780547636924
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 10/16/2012
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

About The Author
AMOS OZ (1939–2018) was born in Jerusalem. He was the recipient of the Prix Femina, the Frankfurt Peace Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Primo Levi Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award, among other international honors. His work, including A Tale of Love and Darkness and In the Land of Israel, has been translated into forty-four languages. 

Date of Birth:

May 4, 1939

Date of Death:

December 28, 2018

Place of Birth:

Jerusalem

Place of Death:

Tel Aviv, Israel

Table of Contents

Hebrew Melodies 1

"What are they Dying For?

Hitler's Dead, Mr. Prime Minister 25

Where Can We Hide Our Shame? 30

On Wonders and Miracles 33

Facing the Nation 40

What Next? 42

A Siege within a Siege 45

What Are We Dying For? 50

Of Slaughter and Distinction 60

The Power and the Purpose 62

Degrees of Evil

Mohammad, Gideon, and the Showers 75

Peace via Morocco 80

The SCOUTS and the LADS 84

On Degrees of Evil 99

Messiah Now, Amalek Now

The Source of Authority 105

Amalek Week 110

The Rift Is an Accomplished Fact 116

Mary Kafka's Suitcase

Between Man and Fellow Man 121

Strong Nerves of Divinity and True German Irony 126

They Were Definitely Created in God's Image 135

Between Word and Picture 144

The Moral and the Yoke of Guilt 153

Of Gentle Austria and the Elders of Zion 159

In the House of a Hanged Man ...

Exercises of a Sick Imagination 165

In the House of a Hanged Man... 169

The Dreams

A New Heart 177

Eulogy for Ephraim Avneri 187

Of Dreams and Dreamers 190

The State of Israel versus the Land of Israel 193

Make Peace, Not Love 199

The Heart of the Fear 207

He Raises the Weak from the Dust and Lifts the Poor Out of the Dirt 210

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