Howard Jacobson's defiant new novel
Howard Jacobson is a rarity in British public life: vocally, unabashedly Jewish. Jews have made fine contributions to British society, of course, but typically they haven’t done so with their Jewishness front and center, preferring to stow it away in the service of a vaguely-defined Britishness that still sees outward expressions of ethnic or religious... The post Oct. 7 changed Howard Jacobson. But his new novel is as defiant as ever. appeared first on The Forward.