The World a Moment Later

Journalist Leon Abramowitz never intended to immigrate to Palestine. Yet in 1922 four years after he was sent there from Europe to report in the lives of the pioneers, he discovers that the editor who dispatched him has run off with half the papers money leaving Leon forgotten in The Promised Widerness. This chain of events opens The World a Moment Later, which tells the story of Abramowitz and his two childern. This is also the story of Yehezkel Klein, an ex-underground activist who wanted to be a 'regular' Zionist but finds himself instead taking a vow of protest against his country- to never leave his apartment; Lev Gutkin, a handsome Russian who arrives in Israel with a smoking gun after his longstanding plan to assassinate Stalin is thwarted when Stalin dies; David Bonhopper, a rightous nomad who tends to poor souls who have been neglected even by Social Services; the late Noami Riklin who still controls the life of Doctor Riklin, healer of the infertile; and Shmuel Klein, an electrician by profession and a pyromaniac by hobby.The shadow book of the official Zionist lexicon. It is the book of those forgotten by the national narrative of Israel, collected here to be remembered.Translated by Jessica Cohen.