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Authenticity and the last Jew on Earth: novelist Joshua Cohen
Authenticity and the last Jew on Earth: novelist Joshua Cohen
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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Aug 27, 2010
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Podcast episode
Description
Colin Marshall talks to novelist Joshua Cohen, author of Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, A Heaven of Others, and now Witz. The new book follows the cross-country (and international, and possibly even interplanetary) journey of Benjamin Israelien, born with a beard and glasses, already nearly a grown man. After a Biblical plague on Christmas Even 1999, Benjamin becomes the last Jew on Earth. He’s first celebrated, then marketed, then turned upon.
Released:
Aug 27, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
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