Pictures From the Other Israel

In October and November 1982, following the most controversial military campaign in Israeli history, Amos Oz set out to take the pulse of his country by talking to people from different walks of life. The result, In the Land of Israel, is a report of this journey through the human landscape of “The Land.”

The essays in this volume had already attracted a great deal of interest when they appeared as a series in Davar, the newspaper of the Histadrut, Israel’s...