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"Yes, it's true: my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather was a slave trader." Click below to watch Booker Prize winner Jessica Cohen and author Agur Schiff read from PROFESSOR SCHIFF'S GUILT, a sharp, funny satire of contemporary attitudes toward racism & the legacy of colonialism, on Translators Aloud:

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PROFESSOR SCHIFF'S GUILT in Library Journal: "In prize-winning Israeli novelist/filmmaker Schiff’s insightful commentary on postcolonial responsibility . . . the professor is met firmly by his accusers, who finally point out that 'when a white European author writes about Africa, he is unwittingly reenacting an exploitative act.' This might damn the author himself, but he is to be praised for taking the risk as he hones important questions with razor-sharp intensity."

https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/professor-schiffs-guilt-2193323

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"This provocative novel raises urgent questions about family legacy, human trafficking, atonement and memory. Full of unexpected twists and humor."—Hadassah Magazine on PROFESSOR SCHIFF'S GUILT by Agur Schiff, translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen.

  https://newvesselpress.com/books/professor-schiffs-guilt/

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“Liberal hypocrisy is furiously implicated in Israeli writer Agur Schiff’s 'PROFESSOR SCHIFF’S GUILT,' translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen . . . He also portrays a more concrete inheritance of racism, mostly in the presence of undocumented African workers in Israel . . . This shrewd masquerade has real bite."—The Wall Street Journal

https://newvesselpress.com/books/professor-schiffs-guilt/

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STARRED review for PROFESSOR SCHIFF'S GUILT in Publishers Weekly: "A daring post-colonial satire about a professor who inadvertently gets wrapped up in human trafficking in modern-day Tel Aviv . . . The author takes a clear-eyed view of the horrors of slavery and its present-day consequences . . . It’s a blistering skewering, and as sharp as it is funny." By Agur Schiff, translated by Booker Prize winner Jessica Cohen for New Vessel Press.

 https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-954404-16-8

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