Article: The Road not Taken

Eliot Zimelman
Jerusalem Post
12-16-1994
THIS YEAR IN JERUSALEM by Mordecai Richler. Toronto, New York. Alfred Knopf. 294 pp. $23.

'If only to find out what had happened to my old haverim, whom I had known when they were young, when everything was possible. Were they at ease in Zion? Or did they regret having made aliya," writes Mordecai Richler in explaining why he decided to visit Israel two years ago.

The trip not only gives him a chance to catch up with his old comrades in the present, but also leads him to reminisce about his Zionist past, which for the Canadian author are good enough reasons for writing his latest book, This Year In Jerusalem.

During his teenage days as a ...

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