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 Published by: Editori Riuniti
www.editoririuniti.netYear of publication: 2011 978-88-359-9009-3 pages 240 Euro 18,00 |
Il popolo dell'esilio (2011) - (The people of exile-2011) In pages of rare intensity, for the first time Moni Ovadia expresses his position on the middle-eastern question: «I am a man of the diaspora. Naturally, every person has the right to a home. But, in order to avoid that home becoming an idol, even there you must maintain the spirit of the diaspora». If not, Ovadia reflects bitterly, nothing will be able to avoid the posthumous victory of the Nazi's abominable project: the definitive cancellation of the one people on earth which had always refused to submit to nationalism. With the ironic and emotional voice of a Jew who desires peace between Israelis and Palestinians, Moni Ovadia interrupts his song with difficult questions, dark forebodings of the discord which separates lands and men: how was the State of Israel born and what is it becoming? What is Zionism and where has it taken the Jews? How can the Jewish tradition be conjugated with the oppression of another people? Past and present intertwine in his memories and, along the crest of of passions which compose the history of the People of the Book, Moni Ovadia responds: «If one persues the path of nationalism and of blood claims to the land, a fundamental aspect of Judaism is removed: that the land which to you has been promised or given, belongs to the Lord. [...] That land was not given to you so that you could become a fanatic nationalist, on the contrary. It was given so that you might demonstrate that the only way to build peace is to a be a people who knows how to live on its land as a stranger among strangers». |
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