TO JERUSALEM AND BACK

In the mid-1970s, Saul Bellow visited Israel and "To Jerusalem and Back" is his
account of his time there. Immersing himself in its landscape and culture, he re
cords the opinions, passions and dreams of Israelis of varying viewpoints - from
Prime Minister Rabin, novelist Amos Oz and the editor of an Arab-language newsp
aper to a kibbutznik escaped from the Warsaw ghetto and the barber at Bellow's h
otel. Through meditations steeped in history and literature he adds his own refl
ections on being Jewish in the twentieth century.