{"product_id":"jaccuse-aharon-shabtai-9780811215398","title":"J'Accuse","description":"Playing on Zola's famous letter denouncing the anti-Semitism of the French government throughout the Dreyfus affair, Aharon Shabtai's title can be taken literally: it charges his government and his people with crimes against the humanity of their neighbors. Here we find snipers shooting children, spin-masters trying to whitewash blood baths, ammunition \"distributed like bars of chocolate,\" and \"technicians of slaughter\" for whom morality is merely \"a pain in the ass.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With a splendid lyrical physicality that accentuates Shabtai's terse immediacy and matter-of-fact scorn, the poems cover a period of six yearsfrom the 1996 election of Netanyahu as prime minister through the curfews, lynchings, riots, sieges, and bombings of the second intifada. But at the heart of \u003cem\u003eJ'Accuse\u003c\/em\u003e is the fate of the ethical Hebrew culture in which the poet was raised: Shabtai refuses to abandon his belief in the moral underpinnings of Israeli society or to be silent before the barbaric and brutal. He witnesses, he protests, he warns. Above all, he holds up a mirror to his nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aharon Shabtai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811215393\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811215398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.14h x 5.26w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Literary Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/31\/2003 pg. 57\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2003 pg. 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/06\/2003 pg. 14","brand":"Aharon Shabtai","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447784911103,"sku":"9780811215398","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_12320b7e-9aa6-492e-98a4-e3750ccd55cd.jpg?v=1777234795","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jaccuse-aharon-shabtai-9780811215398","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}