AWW23: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family - Joshua Cohen

Chair: Michaela Kalowski


In 2022, Joshua Cohen was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The
Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible
Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family. His very funny
depiction of Benzion Netanyahu – a third rate academic attempting
to secure a job in a third rate American university – is part
black comedy, part history lesson and part reflection on
Jewish-American identity. Cohen talks about what it means to
write a ’true story’ and the relationship between fantasy,
history and fiction.


Event details: Sun 05 Mar, 12:00pm on the East
Stage