Larry Derfner’s new book is sure to raise your blood pressure
By BEN FISHER No Country for Jewish Liberals is a political history of Israel’s recent decades intertwined with a memoir by American-Israeli journalist Larry Derfner.The author, a former Jerusalem Post writer currently on the staff of Haaretz, made aliya from Los Angeles in 1985, and recounts growing up in the southern part of that city, interacting with the predominantly African-American clientele of his father’s liquor store.“That experience – of identifying with people who happened to be society’s most feared and hated outsiders – helped shape the ideas I would come up with later.”Derfner’s move to Israel seems to have been a spur-of-the-moment, albeit life-changing, decision. Feeling that he’d “topped out as an urban beat reporter” after covering the 1984 LA Olympics, he set his sights elsewhere. A friend who’d recently
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