The Stories That Save Us: Devarim and the Power of Collective Memory
On my way to London recently I bought two books. The first was Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus. The second was Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s When We See You Again. On the face of it they could not be more different. Harari is sociological, theoretical, civilisational in scope. Goldberg-Polin is personal, intimate and raw. She opens her book as if she is telling a fairytale come nightmare: “Once upon a time I was meandering down the road of life with my husband Jon. It was a regular beige
