Memories After My Death: The Story of My Father Joseph "Tommy" Lapid

About this book

From leading political figure and bestselling Hebrew author Yair Lapid comes a mesmerizing portrait of the authors father one of modern Israels leading figures. Memories After My Death is the astonishing true story of Tommy Lapid a well-loved and controversial Israeli figure who saw the development of the country from all angles over its first sixty years. From seeing his father taken away to a concentration camp to arriving in Tel Aviv at the birth of Israel Tommy Lapid lived every major incident of Jewish life since the 1930s first-hand. This sweeping narrative will captivate anyone with an interest in how Israel became what it is today. Tommy Lapids uniquely unorthodox opinions - he belonged to neither left nor right was Jewish but vehemently secular - expose the many contradictions inherent in Israeli life today.