In search of the unbearable.(an American Jew visits the Occupied Territories)(Column)
American Theatre, July, 2003 by Kushner, Tony
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> I went to visit the Occupied Territories, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the refugee camps and Gaza; I went because I am an American and a Jew and a playwright. I carried with me as reading material the recently published volume of Gershom Scholem's letters. This seemed, among other things, an economical choice: In one volume I carried a glorious example of what I loved and valued about Judaism and Jewish thought, and also an example of those aspects of my tradition from which I dissent, with which I profoundly disagree, or into which I simply cannot find an opening, an entrance; ...
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