ESSAYS and PREFACES

Essays and Prefaces offers a wide range of diverse topics:British and American English Tony Blair's war on IraqZionism v. Judaism the Dead Sea Scrolls Orwell NietzscheBertrand Russell Christianity and the Hebrew Bible Anti-Semitism Hamas Gaza and the West Bank the ICC andthe ICJ rulings Shakespeare Hamlet Caliban Shylockand Elijah - among many other topics. Also included aretwo memoir essays one on the author's life and plights inIsrael and his association with a loose group of immigrantfriends mostly in the 1950's and early 1960's. The otheris on the author's struggles as a student in London from1963 to 1968.The prefaces and back-cover texts are reprinted from alreadypublished novels and plays. Those dealing with Shakespeareoffer a discussion of his plays and of the author's own versions.