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 and

the ICJ rulings, Shakespeare, Hamlet, Caliban, Shylock,

and Elijah - among many other topics. Also included are

two memoir essays, one on the author’s life and plights in

Israel, and his association with a loose group of immigrant

friends, mostly in the 1950’s and early 1960’s. The other

is on the author’s struggles as a student in London from

1963 to 1968.

The prefaces and back-cover texts are reprinted from already

published novels and plays. Those dealing with Shakespeare,

offer a discussion of his plays and of the author’s own versions.