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Review: ‘Mazeltov’

JL;DR SUMMARY Mazeltov, the debut novel by Israeli Italian writer Eli Zuzovsky, offers a complex and nonlinear coming-of-age story centered on Adam Weizmann, an Israeli boy. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish RitualsFamily DynamicsIsraeli IdentityOperation Cast LeadPalestinian PerspectiveComing Of AgeQueer SexualityEli ZuzovskyMazeltovNonlinear Narrative

Places mentioned

Israel
"Israeli young adulthood."
Mount Meron, Northern District, Israel
"from his upsherin, a ceremony centered around a boys first haircut at age 3, on Mount Meron"
New York City, New York, United States
"Years later, Adam finds himself at a bar in New York City sitting next to Khalil"

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