In “Witz,” a plague makes the last Jew on Earth a mega-celebrity
Jewish history features enough real apocalypses to daunt even the most powerful imagination. But that didn’t stop Joshua Cohen from producing Witz, a colossal novel about the last Jew on Earth. Benjamin Israelien, a Candide-like innocent, is the sole survivor of the extermination-by-plague of all the other Jews in the world at the turn of…
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Sacha Arnold