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The Netanyahus : an account of a minor and ultimately even negligible episode in the history of a very famous family (engelsk)


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Corbin College winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies.