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Julian Treslove is having an identity crisis. He’s not sure where he stands on circumcision, on Israel and Palestine, on Holocaust memorials, on pretty much every aspect of Jewish culture in ...

The time comes when Sam Finkler participates in a debate about Israel with a couple of establishment Jews who are no intellectual match for him. During the question period, “a gentile woman” praises ...

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JTA — Howard Jacobson is a funny writer. He has penned several comedic novels, and many commentators said his 2010 Man Booker prize-winning work “The Finkler Question” was the first humorous book to ...

When fast-breaking political events forced British novelist Jacobson ( Peeping Tom ) to put off a trip to Lithuania planned as a search for his Jewish roots, he ...

AT 68, Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson continues to write about his concerns with the challenges of being Jewish and exploring a particular sense of identity that is clearly not in conflux.

The hero of this year's Booker Prize winner, The Finkler Question, is a non-Jew fascinated by Jewishness. For writer David Sax, these efforts to... 'Finkler' Questions The Meaning Of Jewishness In ...

The Finkler Question is the winner of this year's Booker Prize, an amazing novel in that it's many things at once: comic, melancholic, philosophical and paradoxical.