When Israel reached 60 years of independence, the UJIA’s Jewish Life Education Centre published this collection of three short stories and three excerpts to celebrate Israel’s achievement.
The varied stories raise questions of what we perceive Israel to be; challenge the role Israel plays in the identity of its citizens and in our identities; and explore the experiences of, and relationships between, the many different people and characters that form part of Israeli society.
Read them for your own enjoyment of Israeli literature as one example of the talent and achievement Israel has to celebrate.
An activity exploring the story, what Israel is, and means to your participants, and the similarities & differences between older and younger generations of Jews.
In The Fable of the Goat Agnon creates various symbolic events and characters that compare and contrast the old shtetl Jew with a younger more modern Jew. The story also works as a metaphor for the journey individual Jews or the Jewish people made and make to Israel. It raises questions about what it is we perceive Israel to be.
Jewish Life Education Centre is a project of UJIA, a registered charity in England and Wales No. 1060078 and in Scotland No. SC039181.
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