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The film has been released during
a time of heightened anti-Semitic
and anti-immigration sentiment
and fear of the other, all addressed
by Aciman in the novel and experi-
enced by him in his own life.
Even now, said Aciman, after 49
years of living in New York City,
where he is currently a distinguished
professor at the Graduate Center of
City University of New York, teaching
the history of literary theory and the
works of Marcel Proust, he wonders
if he’s really a New Yorker or still a
stranger in a strange land.
“The fact is that I live in New York
and love it, but is it really home?” he
said. “I don’t think so. Do I have an
identity? I’m not sure.”
The same questions of identity, he
said, apply to sexuality, which he’s
frequently asked about (he’s been
a happily married father for many
years, he said).
Anti-Semitism, said Aciman, never
goes away.
“It’s there, forever, but nowadays,
particularly in academic circles,
anti-Zionism has become legitimate,
and anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism
are just couched differently,” he said.
(For more on Aciman’s thoughts on
Judaism, read his 2000 essay,
“Reflections of an Uncertain Jew,”
published in the Threepenny Review.)
He visited Israel when the New
York Times sent him to write a piece
about Bethlehem in 1995.
“I wrote a wonderful piece,” he
said. •
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