Yes, those Netanyahus. The narrator of this book is a kind of version of Harold Bloom, even though we’re told not to think that, but I do anyway. Professor Blum is an Americanist history professor in a western New York college. He’s approached by department chair asking him to be on a hiring committee for a new position for a medievalist. He gets the (accurate) impression that he’s only being asked because the clearly preferred candidate is a highly-recommended Medieval Judaism scholar named Benzion Netanyahu […]