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On today\'s episode, resident literature\\xa0guru\\xa0Marcela Sulak reads from the recently published novel Judas\\xa0by Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas de Lange. Perhaps Israel\'s best-known\\xa0author, Oz explores the titular apostle alongside Israeli historical narrative told through sensitive young student Shmuel Ash, an elderly\\xa0man Gershom Wald, and his daughter-in-law Abravanel. Here is an excerpt from his\\xa0novel:

"Perhaps it really was preferable for what you did here to happen\\u2014for tens of thousands to to to the slaughter and for hundreds of thousand to go into exile. The Jews here are actually a single big refugee camp, and so are the Arabs. And now the Arabs live day by day with the disaster of their defeat, and the Jews live night by night with the threat of their vengeance. That way apparently you\\u2019re all much better off. Both peoples are consumed by hatred and poison, and they \\xa0both emerged from the war obsessed with vengeance and soaked in self-righteousness."

Texts:
Judas, by Amos Oz. Translated by Nicholas de Lange. Nov. 8, 2016

Music:
Ruchi Tlifat - Daoud and Saleh al Kuwaiti
Ezra Aharon - Taksim Oud Maqam Bayati\\xa0