Liam Hoare
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 HoareWhile 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 HoareIsraeli 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 HoareOf 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 HoareIt 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 HoareIsraeli 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 HoareA 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 HoareAmos 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 HoareThe 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 HoareBooks 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 HoareIsrael, 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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Voice of the Week
Our Voice of the Week is Ms. Iraq 2017 who travelled to Israel last week to speak at the AJC Global Forum 2018 about her hopes for the future of the Middle East. Sarah Idan’s family was forced to flee Iraq after an Instagram photo with Israel’s contestant Adar Gandelsman went viral last year.
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