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recounts the adventures of Tuvia Tenenbom, who wanders around Israel of our time calling himself "Tobi the German." In the course of interviews Tuvia extracts information, sentiments, hidden theories and delusional visions motivating the miscellany of peoples forming the present-day Holy Land.
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advised its readers to "read Tenenbom's book; we don't have the luxury not to know what he's telling us." In Germany, the book came out in November 2014 by the publishing house of Suhrkamp under the title "Allein unter Juden"
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neighborhood of Jerusalem, where he lived for over a year. Tenenbom examines the various ultra-Orthodox groups in Israel in general and in Jerusalem in particular, recounts interviews with various Rebbes
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contains interviews with politicians and activists from the far-right to the far-left, whom he asked to explain to him why has Germany taken in more refugees than other European countries.
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advised its listeners not to buy the book and encouraged those who had already bought it to bring it back to the bookstore. Evelyn Finger of
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Tenenbom chronicles his visits to many refugee camps in Germany, reporting of horrific conditions in most of those camps. Additionally,
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was published by Suhrkamp Verlag in Berlin, Germany. In March 2017 it was published in English by Gefen Publishing under the title
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called Tenenbom "the ultimate leftist and humanist who loves all people, is everything the left pretends to be but is not," while
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came out in English in February 2021, following its publication in Germany in February 2020, under the title
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wrote: "Brutal, irreverent, and cutting, Tenenbom’s riveting book aims to disrupt American complacency."
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Tenenbom has written for newspapers and websites. Tenenbom was a political columnist for
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was published in Israel in September 2014 by Sela Meir publishers and reached the
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where it was a Spiegel Best Seller. The book recounts Tenenbom's journey in the
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was published in May 2024. Originally published in German under the title
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came out in English in July 2017, following its publication in German by
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of Berlin. Critics differed widely in their opinions of the work:
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through present-day Germany. The book details the wide spread of
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Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland K.d.ö.R. (3 December 2012).
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named it "the most important book in the last five years," and
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praised Tenenbom's "one-sidedness," comparing him to both
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in Europe. The book received strong endorsement from the
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by the Berlin publishing company of Suhrkamp in Germany,
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best-seller lists, winning praise by Israeli critics.
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Jewish Theater of New York
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Le Monde
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travelogue
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Henryk M. Broder
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