THE RED BOOK

mid twentieth century The cold war. The Jews are establishing a state, and have to choose a side. The choice between the Soviet Union and the United States will determine the character of Israeli society: will it be a socialist, ideological, mobilized society - or a capitalist, Western, bourgeois society. This is the story of the three rabbis of the Israeli left - Yitzhak Tabenkin, Meir Yaari and Moshe Sana - in those fateful years. With the hand of a master and in prose as thin as a biblical story, Assaf Inbari sketches their work and their torn souls, tormented between their messianic dreams of human redemption and the painful and bitter disillusionment with communism The Soviet; between devotion to noble ideas and dark fanaticism and sometimes even tyranny in everyday life. This is a literary work that evokes an emotional, historical and even contemporary storm, posing to its readers complex questions about loyalty and betrayal, Zionism and Judaism, faith and apostasy. Dov Elboim