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Liam Hoare

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Liam Hoare is a writer on politics and literature. He specialises in Israel, Jewish interests, and European affairs and his work has appeared in Tablet, The Tower and The Atlantic.

Liam Hoare's articles

Israel70 | Amos Oz’s Israel

By Liam Hoare
 While Amos Oz’s novels are often read reductively as political allegories, Liam Hoare suggests that Oz’s special subject... Read more > June 2018

Why is there no Museum of Contemporary Israeli History?

By Liam Hoare
 Israeli museums, argues Liam Hoare, are a terrain of political struggle over history and memory. ‘Until these arguments... Read more > Winter 2017

Book Review | We Were the Future: A Memoir of the Kibbutz

By Liam Hoare
 Of all the aspects and institutions of kibbutz life, the children’s house is one that in particular continues... Read more > Autumn 2017

Book Review | All the Rivers

By Liam Hoare
 It is hard to know how to talk about Dorit Rabinyan’s third novel, All the Rivers, an elegant,... Read more > Summer 2017

1967 | Natan Alterman or Amos Oz? The Six-Day War and Israeli Literature

By Liam Hoare
 Israeli writers were split by the Six-Day War. On one side was the poet Natan Alterman, whose Movement... Read more > Spring 2017

Book review | A Horse Walks Into a Bar

By Liam Hoare
 A Horse Walks Into a Bar, an opening line to many a haggard joke, is not necessarily what... Read more > Winter 2016

Book Review │ Judas

By Liam Hoare
 Amos Oz was 14 when, two years after his mother took her own life, he left the city... Read more > Article

Book Review | The Hilltop

By Liam Hoare
 The Hilltop is the first Israeli novel to chronicle the inner lives of the settlers that has been... Read more > Winter 2015

Finding the Words: a review essay

By Liam Hoare
 Books under review: Falling Out of Time David Grossman, Jonathan Cape, 2014, pp.208; Neuland, Eshkol Nevo, Chatto &... Read more > Spring 2014

Book Review: Like Dreamers

By Liam Hoare
 Israel, as Amos Oz once observed, was born out of a spectrum of dreams and visions, blueprints and... Read more > Winter 2014

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Our Voice of the Week is David Hirsh giving a lecture titled 'Contemporary Left Antisemitism' at the University of Köln, 16 November 2017.

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Our Image of the Week is an Israeli with his face painted with both Israeli and Druze flags at the rally to protest against the Nation-State Law, in Rabin Square, 4 Aug. 2018. Photo by Gili Yaari. Flash90.

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