Catch The Jew!

Tenenbom''s Catch the Jew! is a lively and humorous tour through Israel as the author visits and interviews the multifaceted State of Israel.The book is simultaneously extremely funny but also very dark and disturbing as Tenenbom forces the reader to confront the painful realities facing the Jewish State, not only from fundamentalists but also from their European supporters.

This is an excellent book for those interested in an unvarnished and eminently readable depiction of the opinions and beliefs of and about the Jews and the State of Israel. It is filled with humor and eye-opening insight into Israelis and Palestinians and the hope and challenges found everywhere in the Promised Land. I particularly liked the fact that no person or ideology is spared from the author’s scathing critique but at the same time, the worst actors bear the brunt of it.

If someone wereto ask me to recommend one book to help him or her understand Israel today—they could do no better than to read Tenenbom’s Catch the Jew!

The most important book I have read in the last five years

Tenenbom''s insights are sharp and clear . . . Tenenbom has a captivating personality and he is extraordinarily funny . . . Read what Tenenbom has to tell us, without bias. We don''t have the privilege not to know.

Run to your nearest bookstore and pick up a copy . . . I haven''t laughed this hard out loud in a long time . . . This book is a must for anyone who wants to formulate an independent opinion on the reality in this region.

The humor in Catch the Jew! is razor sharp, it is highly intellectual and it''s so funny that it will bring tears to your eyes. Tuvia, the ultimate leftist and humanist who loves all people, is everything the left pretends to be but is not. He exposes the European and Israeli leftists and human rights activists for what they are, racist and ignorant, and this creates an obvious tension that is at the core of this book. No wonder that some leftists are calling for his murder . . . Tuvia is curious as a cat, sly as a fox, friendly as a Labrador, and is also a man with seismographic sensitivities.

It''s been a long time since a book affected me so deeply . . . There are those who compare Tuvia with Woody Allen but I think that these two are like oil and water. Whereas Woody is scared of his own shadow, Tuvia doesn''t stop walking, deeper and deeper, in places most of us don''t have the courage to enter.

This book recounts the adventures of Tuvia Tenenbom, who wanders around Israel of our time calling himself "Tobi the German". In the course of numerous interviews Tuvia extracts information, sentiments, hidden theories and delusional visions motivating the miscellany of peoples forming the present-day Holy Land. Does Palestinian wife number one hate the Jews more than she hates wife number two? Who does a young German tourist hate more, her dead Nazi grandpa or the just-born Jewish baby? Who finances cash-rich NGOs pursuing a Judenrein Israel? Who sets Palestinian olive groves on fire and why? What do you see from a Piper Cherokee above a Bedu camp? Who are the flaming feminists who sacrifice their lives for the rights of polygamists? Whose land is this, anyway? In the course of his seven-months journey Tobi the German discovers Syrian flags growing inside apples, she-asses who used to be men, five-star refugee camps, flying prophets, cash-loving guardians of the poor, masturbating monks in eternal love of Palestinians, human rights activists in eternal hatred of Jews, cash-rich rabbis without congregations, families growing in cemeteries -- among many others. Catch the Jew!, the most humorous composition on the Middle East to date, is a polyglot spin around a cultural miscegenation in a very small space. However, it is never-daunted author finds that with labneh, strudel, olive oil, apple pie, kebab, rugelach, hummus and schnitzel, a happy tummy can bear us through even the most appalling matters. Except the conclusion.

• | Author: Tuvia Tenenbom
• | Publisher: Gefen Publishing House
• | Publication Date: Feb 01, 2014
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9789652297983
• | ISBN-10: 9652297984