Hello, Refugees! by Isi Tenenbom
Germany, the most racist of countries less than a century ago, has for the past two years welcomed over one million refugees, more than any other European country. To find out the secret behind this turn of character, Tuvia Tenenbom, a Jew born in Israel, presented himself as a Jordanian and was able to gain entry into many refugee camps. Living in squalid conditions in airless rooms, and with barely edible food, the refugees begged Tuvia to help them get out of the camps. When not with the refugees, Tuvia traveled through the land and mingled with the local people who shared with him that they, the Germans, were the kindest people in Europe, far superior to the inhumane Jews. Tuvia Tenenbom's provocative re-enactment of the refugee reality in the middle of Europe, coupled with the rising anti-Semitism of the people who proclaim themselves to be kind, exposes the hypocrisy of the Refugees Welcome mantra chiming throughout the Western world. - - - Praise for Tuvia Tenenbom's previous work: Irresistibly fascinating, emotionally explosive . seductive and engaging. The New York Times Highly engaging and emotional, eminently readable, brutally honest. Publishers Weekly A Falstaffian reporter . . . Illuminating and alarming. The Wall Street Journal Tenenbom's hodgepodge of politics, zealotry and literary genres is fresh and audacious. The Village Voice Hugely entertaining, terribly funny, sarcastic, engaging, powerful, accusatory, judgmental, good National ReviewTuvia Tenenbom is the creator of the Jewish Theater of New York and a best-selling novelist, journalist, and dramatist. He earned his doctorate in English literature from St. John's University. John's University, CUNY-Brooklyn for his MFA in playwriting, Touro for his BFA in mathematics and computer science, and Jerusalem for his rabbinical studies. In Israel and New York, he studied Christianity and Islam, as well as journalism, acting, theater, and finance (at NYU). Tuvia was called one of America's brightest thinkers by Germany's famous Die Zeit, and his theatrical work was acclaimed as compulsively fascinating by the New York Times and theater of honesty, curiosity, and chutzpah by the Village Voice.
Tuvia's articles and essays have appeared in major Western publications such as Die Zeit in Germany (where he has a semi-monthly column), Corriere della Sera in Italy, Yedioth Ahronoth in Israel, and Fox News and Forward in the United States. He's the author of the Spiegel Top-10 Best Selling Allein unter Deutschen (I Sleep in Hitler's Room in English), as well as Israel's number one best book Capture the Jew!
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| ISBN 13 | 9780983939948 |
| ISBN 10 | 0983939942 |
| Title | Hello, Refugees! |
| Author | Isi Tenenbom |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Jewish Theater of New York |
| Year published | 2017-07-17 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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