“The Netanyahus” is set around 1959-60 and centers on a Jewish historian at a university loosely based on Cornell who is asked to help decide whether to hire the visiting Israeli scholar.

NEW YORK - Joshua Cohen’s “The Netanyahus,” a comic and rigorous campus novel based on the true story of the father of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeking a job in academia, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.īenzion Netanyahu, who died in 2012, was a medieval historian and ultra-nationalist who taught at several American schools, including the University of Denver and Cornell University. (Bloomsbury/Liveright/Scribner/Graywolf/Random House/New York Review Books via AP) This combination of photos shows cover art for, top row from left, 'Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South' by Winfred Rembert, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 'Covered With Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America' by Nicole Eustace, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, 'Cuba: An American History' by Ada Ferrer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, bottom row from left, 'Frank: Sonnets' by Diane Seuss, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 'Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City' by Andrea Elliott, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and 'The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family' by Joshua Cohen, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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