Books: A road map to righteousness; As novelist and commentator, A B Yehoshua acts as a moral touchstone for Israelis. DONALD MACINTYRE talks to him in Haifa about the ethics of writers and states.(Features)

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: May 20, 2005| Author: Macintyre, Donald | Copyright information

Byline: DONALD MACINTYRE

With AB Yehoshua, as with Graham Greene, you're never quite sure whether art is imitating life or the reverse. On a coffee table in his Haifa living room a copy of Ha'aretz magazine is open at a long article on David Bukay, a fellow academic of Yehoshua's at the city's university. Bukay is under investigation for making statements about Arabs so racist that even the Anti-Defamation League, usually the exclusive scourge of anti-Semites, has denoun...

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