What it means to be Jewish in post October 7 world

By Philippa Tracy

Howard Jacobson won the Booker Prize in 2010 for The Finkler Question, a book about philosophy, culture, friendship, love, humanity and what it means to be Jewish. In his latest novel Howl the humour is darker, exploring what it means to be Jewish in a post October 7 world. In a piece he wrote for a UK national newspaper, Jacobson calls the novel’s response, “exploratory and uncertain” rather than political, because “no good novelist was ever an ideologue.”...