Winner Of The 2022 Pulitzer Prize For Fiction2021 National Jewish Book Award Winnera New York Times Notable Book Of 2021A Wall Street Journal Best Book Of 2021 A Kirkus Best FICTION Book Of 2021. "Absorbing, delightful, hilarious, breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel I've read in what feels like forever. " Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The New York Times Book Review Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 19591960- Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian but not an historian of the Jewsis co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.