"A personal, often Hilariously funny memoir about growing up Jewish, it is also a passionate, honest examination of the idea of Israel-As-Homeland: for Jews, for Palestinians and, not least, for the author himself. Richler brings vividly to."@en
"In this memoir, the author recreates the Montreal of his adolescence of his family, of the friends he hung out with and reveals their dream of Israel as homeland turned into a reality Woven throughout are his observations and the middle East conflict and on the relationship of Canadians and Americans to Israel."@en
"Part memoir, part history, part political commentary - and all Richler - This Year in Jerusalem is a personal, passionate, and quirkily comic examination of the idea of Israel-as-homeland: for Jews, for Palestinians, and, not least, for the author himself."
"Part memoir, part history, part political commentary - and all Richler - This Year in Jerusalem is a personal, passionate, and quirkily comic examination of the idea of Israel-as-homeland: for Jews, for Palestinians, and, not least, for the author himself."@en
"Life the Montreal of his adolescence - his distinctive and unusual family; the excitement of the early Canadian Zionist youth movement; the idea of emigration to Israel growing into a shimmering dream for himself and his friends."@en