Volume 32, Number 15 · October 10, 1985
Absalom in Israel
By Irving Howe
Past Continuous
by Yaakov Shabtai, translated by Dalya Bilu
Jewish Publication Society, 389 pp., $16.95
So many secret disappointments and betrayed visions accumulate over the years and bear down upon the consciousness of people who may not even know the source of their dismay. In the culture of Israel, this burden is perhaps the very idea of Israel itself, as if people—at least, some people—were haunted by a vision of what Israel was supposed to be but, in the nature of things, never could become.
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