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Ebook About Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian – but not an historian of the Jews - is coopted 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. Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics – ‘An Account of A Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family’ that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.Book The Netanyahus Review :
Joshua Cohen has written a snarky and humorous book of speculative fiction about Benzion Netanyahu’s job interview at the fictional Corbin College in western New York during the winter of 1959-60. One of the buildings at the college is called Fredonia Hall. True there a town in New York called Fredonia, but I believe the real reference to Fredonia, the mythical country in the 1933 Marx Brothers movie “Duck Soup.” The book is patterned after his real-life visit to Cornell where he was hosted by Harold Bloom. Netanyahu brings his whole family with him including is wife and three kids, one of whom is his son Binyamin.Much of the book has to do with his host, economic historian Ruben Blum, his family, and his identity as the only Jewish faculty member. Because he is Jewish, he is chosen to host Netanyahu who is an expert on inquisition Spain, a subject Blum knows little. Blum comes from the family of an East European garment cutter, while his wife Edith comes from a German-Jewish family of a small factory owner. The conflicts are obvious and their teen aged daughter pines for a nose job. Here we have all kinds of identity issues rapped up into one family.The Netanyahus overwhelm the Blums wreaking havoc with their home and breaking their color TV, an anachronism here because in 1960 there were very few assistant professors who owned a color TV. Color television did not become a mass consumer product until 1964. In another anachronism he has Blum’s former employer CUNY, which was not formed until 1961. Further, Ruben condescends to call the Netanyahu family the “Yahus.”The book is serious when it discusses Netanyahu’s thesis that antisemitism in inquisition Spain was racialized. It did not matter whether or not a Jew converted to Catholicism, it was their blood that kept them from being true Christians. Hitler would adopt a similar view 450 years later and to me that was reinforced when I visited an exhibition on converso Spain at the New Mexico Museum. Thus, if Judaism was racialized the only solution for Jews was to have a state of their own.I sense that Cohen really does not understand the Revisionist Zionist philosophy of Benzion Netanyahu. I did learn that Netanyahu was Jabotinsky’s, the founder of Revisionist Zionism, man in the United States until he died in 1940. Several years ago, I reviewed Hillel Halkin’s biography of Jabotinsky. There I learned that Jabotinsky and Netanyahu by implication understood that 1) there would be an inherent conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine, 2) Nazism was going to destroy European Jewry and 3) the Labor-Zionist socialist model was not going to work in Israel. Simply put Jabotinsky and Netanyahu were clear-eyed realists. I wish Cohen grasped that fact.Nevertheless, when you get beyond the issues I have raised, I believe the reader will learn much from the issues concerning the role of Jews in America, especially in a very non-Jewish community and will enjoy the comedic touches throughout the book. I'm only partway through this, but can tell you as a child of a Cornell professor in the years depicted, the author (born 1980) has no idea about the time and place he's writing about, except maybe in the Blum/Netanyahu/Cohen heads who think they know what other people are thinking. More a novel about current Israeli (Ashkenazi vs Sephardim) and campus politics, projected onto the past, than about Cornell and Ithaca at that time. A lot of Monsey, Borough Park and Prospect Heights yeshiva-think. If you're Jewish, you may find it funny; if you're a 'goy' you probably won't. My advice: take a pass on any book or author blurbed by James Wood or Harold Bloom. Much better books about Cornell and Ithaca are Nabokov's 'Pnin' and 'Pale Fire', Richard Farina's 'Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me' and Alison Lurie's 'The War Between the Tates'. Among the many anachronisms: Cool Whip in a can and Pampers didn't exist in 1958, nor did Route 81, and no parent read or edited their kid's college essays or obsessed over where they'd get in. No one served wine and cheese at a faculty get-together. Cornell has never had a theological seminary, and no student or professor has ever had to attend chapel there. Women were admitted since the day of the university's founding. Many of the most distinguished faculty (Hans Bethe, David Brion Davis, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Alfred Kahn, Alison Lurie, Felix Reichman) were Jewish. If Jews were as boorish as Cohen makes them sound, they would not have found a warm welcome at the Ithaca Yacht Club, but my father's Jewish colleagues were not, and the only person I know who was blackballed was a neighbor my father put up for membership, who was turned down because he had been a pacifist and conscientious objector during the war. As the title page says, this is a book of fiction, as indeed it is. I doubt there was any university in the northeast at the time that resembles this fabulation, except in Cohen's head. 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