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Nov. 8th, 2005 02:59 pm"Yann Martel and his novel-in-progress about the Holocaust
This sounds so surreal –Yann Martel reading to conservative Jews in Israel from his new book featuring a donkey and a monkey as stand-ins for the hardworking Jew and the clever Jew.
Martel acknowledges his identity as an outsider in writing about the Holocaust. He is neither Jewish nor has he experienced tragedy. "I'm going in territory emotionally sensitive to Jews," said Martel. "[But] I think it's the role of the artist to put on different costumes and display the results to the reader."
Anyway, "it's the non-Jews who have to know about it," he said. "There's no danger of Jews committing a Holocaust. Barring massacres like Deir Yassin it's mostly non-Jews who have committed massacres." During the 1948 war, Jewish soldiers killed over 100 unarmed Palestinian men, women and children in the village of Deir Yassin on the outskirts of Jerusalem."
Link to the Globe and Mail article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051108/MARTEL08/TPEntertainment/TopStories
This sounds so surreal –Yann Martel reading to conservative Jews in Israel from his new book featuring a donkey and a monkey as stand-ins for the hardworking Jew and the clever Jew.
Martel acknowledges his identity as an outsider in writing about the Holocaust. He is neither Jewish nor has he experienced tragedy. "I'm going in territory emotionally sensitive to Jews," said Martel. "[But] I think it's the role of the artist to put on different costumes and display the results to the reader."
Anyway, "it's the non-Jews who have to know about it," he said. "There's no danger of Jews committing a Holocaust. Barring massacres like Deir Yassin it's mostly non-Jews who have committed massacres." During the 1948 war, Jewish soldiers killed over 100 unarmed Palestinian men, women and children in the village of Deir Yassin on the outskirts of Jerusalem."
Link to the Globe and Mail article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051108/MARTEL08/TPEntertainment/TopStories
