ESSAYS and PREFACES

Essays and Prefaces offers a wide range of diverse topics:British and American English, Tony Blair’s war on Iraq,Zionism v. Judaism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Orwell, Nietzsche,Bertrand Russell, Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Anti-Semitism, Hamas, Gaza and the West Bank, the ICC andthe ICJ rulings, Shakespeare, Hamlet, Caliban, Shylock,and Elijah - among many other topics. Also included aretwo memoir essays, one on the author’s life and plights inIsrael, and his association with a loose group of immigrantfriends, mostly in the 1950’s and early 1960’s. The otheris on the author’s struggles as a student in London from1963 to 1968.The prefaces and back-cover texts are reprinted from alreadypublished novels and plays. Those dealing with Shakespeare,offer a discussion of his plays and of the author’s own versions.