Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land

Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land

<DIV><B>An urgent and deeply necessary work, <I>Dear Zealots</I> offers three powerful essays that speak directly to our present age, on the rise of zealotry in Israel and around the world. </B><BR /><BR /><B>“Concise, evocative . . . <I>Dear Zealots</I> is not just a brilliant book of thoughts and ideas—it is a depiction of one man’s struggle, who for decades has insisted on keeping a sharp, strident and lucid perspective in the face of chaos and at times of madness.” — David Grossman, winner of the Man Booker International Prize </B><BR /><BR /> From the incomparable Amos Oz comes a series of three essays: on the universal nature of fanaticism and its possible cures, on the Jewish roots of humanism and the need for a secular pride in Israel, and on the geopolitical standing of Israel in the wider Middle East and internationally.<BR /><BR /><I>Dear Zealots</I> is classic Amos Oz—fluid, rich, masterly, and perfectly timed for a world in which polarization and extremism are rising everywhere. The essays were written, Oz states, "first and foremost" for his grandchildren: they are a patient, learned telling of history, religion, and politics, to be thumbed through and studied, clung to even, as we march toward an uncertain future.</DIV>