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...author of a previous religious novel, The Carpenter Years (and non-fiction books on Martin Buber and The Natural and the Supernatural Jew), Arthur Cohen knows all the odds, creative and commercial. Yet he has taken on a saint and a fable in fiction, and won -apparently by sheer moral passion...
Particular Good. In a remarkable fantasy-within-a-fantasy, titled The Legend of the Last Jew on Earth, Cohen completes the persecution theme...
...theme of the Jew's enemy-without...
...remains for his main plot to conclude the theme of the Jew's enemy-within...
...particular. How, he seems to ask, can men come to terms with their enemies and themselves and perhaps even with their God without the promise of a savior? Yet, the world being what it is, how can that savior help failing? The author may not quite make the Jew into Everyman. But in the end he does something even bolder: he makes Everyman a Jew...