num_pages: 240
description: Corbin College not-quite-upstate New York winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum a Jewish historian - but not an historian of the Jews - is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview family unexpectedly in tow Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with non-fiction the campus novel with the lecture THE NETANYAHUS is a wildly inventive genre-bending comedy of blending identity and politics - 'An Account of A Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Incident in the History of a Very Famous Family' that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.
language: English
title: The Netanyahus
publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions