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My Father, the Messiah

A Memoir
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In her memoir My Father, the Messiah, Gil Hochberg traces a father-daughter relationship as it transforms across decades--from intense closeness in childhood to a fraught distance as Hochberg's father Yossi becomes increasingly convinced that he is the Messiah. After building a career as a statistician in the US, Yossi returns to Israel and becomes an avid Zionist, while having several psychotic episodes. Hochberg reconstructs her relationship with her father through an archive of letters between the two, as well as her father's personal writings, painting a tender portrait of the non-normative family life within which Hochberg's queer identity unfolds and a heart-rending account of her father's mental decline. Hochberg crafts a powerful story of intimacy and loss that dovetails with sea changes in Israel's religious and political environment since the 1990s.
Gil Hochberg is Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University. She is author of Visual Occupations: Vision and Visibility in a Conflict Zone, Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future, and In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination.
Prologue 2013 East Jerusalem 2013 Tel Aviv 1991 Geha and Petach Tikvak 2016 Los Angeles 1992 Tel Aviv 1989 Tel Aviv 1987 Tel Aviv 1989-1995 Tel Aviv 2013 Tel Aviv 2013-2015 Los Angeles 2016 1976-1985 1970-1975 Los Angeles ? Ann Arbor and Bloomington ? Chapel Hill 2016-2017 Los Angeles 2018 1980-1986 New York 1972-1976 Chapel Hill 2020-2022 New York January 2023 New York January 2018 Tel Aviv April 2023 Petach Tekvah May 2023 1949-1963 New York 2023-2024 New York 2023-2024 New York August 2024 RebordOes Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
"In a narrative that refuses the confinement of a single identity narrator, My Father the Messiah is a genre-bending book. Hochberg's emotional and intellectual journey to contend with the legacy of her complex, mentally ill father and her identity as queer and Jewish--is heavy and at times dark, but her writing is concise, emotionally steady and often funny. It is a smart, tragic, hopeful, strange book, and I was totally immersed in it from start to finish."--Mikhal Dekel, author of, Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey
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