{"id":959,"date":"2017-09-19T17:56:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T14:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2017-09-19T17:56:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T14:56:39","slug":"distant-cousins-jewish-review-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/2017\/09\/19\/distant-cousins-jewish-review-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Distant Cousins (Jewish Review of Books)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short essay on a striking turn to Israel in American Jewish fiction this year, from the latest <em>Jewish Review of Books<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distant Cousins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"firstcap\">R<\/span>eading novels published in the last year by some of America\u2019s best Jewish writers, I found myself struck by a recurring character\u2014Israel. That Jonathan Safran Foer\u2019s\u00a0<em>Here I Am<\/em>\u00a0and Joshua Cohen\u2019s\u00a0<em>Moving Kings\u00a0<\/em>both feature Israel and Israelis as important plot devices might have been a coincidence. But then this fall came Nathan Englander\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dinner at the Center of the Earth\u00a0<\/em>and Nicole Krauss\u2019s\u00a0<em>Forest Dark<\/em>, both of which are set mostly in Israel. Something\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n<p>(Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishreviewofbooks.com\/articles\/2792\/distant-cousins\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short essay on a striking turn to Israel in American Jewish fiction this year, from the latest Jewish Review of Books: Distant Cousins Reading novels published in the last year by some of America\u2019s best Jewish writers, I found myself struck by a recurring character\u2014Israel. That Jonathan Safran Foer\u2019s\u00a0Here I Am\u00a0and Joshua Cohen\u2019s\u00a0Moving Kings\u00a0both feature Israel and Israelis as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}