On today’s episode, resident literature guru Marcela Sulak reads from the recently published novel Judas by Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas de Lange. Perhaps Israel’s best-known author, Oz explores the titular apostle alongside Israeli historical narrative told through sensitive young student Shmuel Ash, an elderly man Gershom Wald, and his daughter-in-law Abravanel. Here is an excerpt from his novel:
“Perhaps it really was preferable for what you did here to happen—for tens of thousands to to to the slaughter and for hundreds of thousand to go into exile. The Jews here are actually a single big refugee camp, and so are the Arabs. And now the Arabs live day by day with the disaster of their defeat, and the Jews live night by night with the threat of their vengeance. That way apparently you’re all much better off. Both peoples are consumed by hatred and poison, and they both emerged from the war obsessed with vengeance and soaked in self-righteousness.“
Texts:
Judas, by Amos Oz. Translated by Nicholas de Lange. Nov. 8, 2016
Music:
Ruchi Tlifat – Daoud and Saleh al Kuwaiti
Ezra Aharon – Taksim Oud Maqam Bayati
Producer: Ariella Plachta
Technical producer: Alex Benish
