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.