by Roger Cohen
CHAPTER 12 The Ghosts of Repetition
1 “I would like to do portraits”: Vincent van Gogh quoted in William H. Robinson, Marcia Steele, and Galina K. Olmsted, “Adeline Ravoux, the Innkeeper’s Daughter,” in Van Gogh: New Research and Perspectives (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014); http://www.clevelandart.org/events/exhibitions/van-gogh-repetitions/supplement/adeline-ravoux.
2 “Do not feel safe”: Czesław Miłosz, “You Who Wronged,” in Collected Poems, 1931–2001 (London: Allen Lane, 2001), p. 103.
3 “German military occupiers”: Dovid Katz, “Trilingual Memorial Plaque Unveiled on Zhager Town Square,” DefendingHistory.com, July 13, 2012.
CHAPTER 13 A Single Chain
1 “the only city where the vote”: Yehuda Amichai quoted in Amos Elon, Jerusalem: Battlegrounds of Memory (New York: Kodansha International, 1995), p. 182.
2 “in doing so reproduce”: Zadie Smith, “Man vs. Corpse,” New York Review of Books, December 5, 2013.
3 “Home is the place where”: Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged (New York: Henry Holt, 1969), p. 34.
4 “that throttling knot”: James Lasdun, “American Mountain,” in Landscape with Chainsaw: Poems (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003); James Lasdun, Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013).
5 “Zionist SS”: Tom Paulin, “Killed in Crossfire,” The Observer, February 17, 2001.
6 “The right of return is a euphemism”: Amos Oz, interview by author, Tel Aviv, January 27, 2013.
7 “There is something uncannily adaptive”: Lasdun, Give Me Everything You Have, p. 196. 275 “Saint Good Luck”: Mary Szybist, Incarnadine: Poems (New York: Macmillan, 2013), p. 31.
8 “You see that arch”: Yehuda Amichai, “Tourists,” in Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems (Rhinebeck, NY: Sheep Meadow Press, 1992), p. 135.
A Note About the Author
Roger Cohen is a columnist for The New York Times, where he has worked since 1990, primarily as Paris correspondent, bureau chief in the Balkans and Berlin, and foreign editor. Prior to that he was a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. His work has won wide recognition, including awards from the Overseas Press Club, and he has taught at Princeton and Harvard universities. Raised in South Africa and England, a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, he is a naturalized American.