“One can compare the story to the biblical journey of Abraham and Isaac to Mount Moriah, where God commanded that father bind and sacrifice his son.”
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Yedioth Ahronoth
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“In prize-winning Israeli novelist/filmmaker Schiff’s insightful commentary on postcolonial responsibility . . . the professor is met by his accusers, who finally point out that ‘when a white European author writes about Africa, he is unwittingly reenacting an exploitative act.’ This might damn the author himself, but he is to be praised for taking the risk as he hones important questions with razor-sharp intensity.”
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