Dear Zealots

<strong>An urgent and deeply necessary work <em>Dear Zealots</em> offers three powerful essays that speak directly to our present age on the rise of zealotry in Israel and around the world. </strong> <p/><strong>Concise evocative . . . <em>Dear Zealots</em> is not just a brilliant book of thoughts and ideas--it is a depiction of one man's struggle who for decades has insisted on keeping a sharp strident and lucid perspective in the face of chaos and at times of madness. -- David Grossman winner of the Man Booker International Prize </strong> <p/> From the incomparable Amos Oz comes a series of three essays: on the universal nature of fanaticism and its possible cures on the Jewish roots of humanism and the need for a secular pride in Israel and on the geopolitical standing of Israel in the wider Middle East and internationally. <p/><em>Dear Zealots</em> is classic Amos Oz--fluid rich masterly and perfectly timed for a world in which polarization and extremism are rising everywhere. The essays were written Oz states first and foremost for his grandchildren: they are a patient learned telling of history religion and politics to be thumbed through and studied clung to even as we march toward an uncertain future.