ESSAYS and PREFACES

About the Book

Essays and Prefaces offers a wide range of diverse topics: British and American English, Tony Blair’s war on Iraq, Zionism v. Judaism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Orwell, Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Anti- Semitism, Hamas, Gaza and the West Bank, the ICC and the ICJ rulings, Shakespeare, Hamlet, Caliban, Shylock, and Elijah - among many other topics. Also included are two memoir essays, one on the author’s life and plights in Israel, and his association with a loose group of immigrant friends, mostly in the 1950’s and early 1960’s. The other is on the author’s struggles as a student in London from 1963 to 1968. The prefaces and back-cover texts are reprinted from already published novels and plays. Those dealing with Shakespeare, offer a discussion of his plays and of the author’s own versions.

About the Author

Victor Sasson grew up in Baghdad. He holds degrees from the University of London, and a Ph.D. from New York University. Formerly, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Semitic Studies, University of South Africa, and Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (U.K.). Currently, Associate Member of the Columbia University Seminar on the Hebrew Bible, and the Seminar on Shakespeare. He has published novels, plays, and poetry. His latest novel, Utopia’s Pirates, is a political satire.