Arthur Miller’s private views on Netanyahu, women and settlements

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Published: 21 June 2018

Last updated: 5 March 2024

THIS WEEK, AN AUCTION house in Jerusalem will offer another window into Arthur Miller’s ideas and areas of interest, but this time with an Israeli angle: Eight signed letters, four faxes and four printed-out emails written over the course of a decade, to his Israeli friend Meir Stieglitz.

Written between 1992 and 2002, these letters show how sharp Miller was even in his later years, and how concerned he was with what was happening in the world in general, and in Israel in particular.

He wrote of “the horror” of the 1994 massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs; wondered, in 1996, whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “extremism was for election purposes only”; and “mourned for Israel” amid the deteriorating security situation of the second intifada.

FULL STORY What Arthur Miller thought about Netanyahu, the settlements and women (Haaretz)

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