Joshua Cohen, an American novelist, won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, The Netanyahus. The book imagines a college job interview in the 1950s for Benzion Netanyahu, academic and father of the future Israeli prime minister. The novel explores themes of Jewishness and diaspora as Netanyahu’s fatalistic view of Jewish history bumps up against that of the narrator, an assimilated American-Jewish professor. The Pulitzer committee described the novel as “…a linguistically deft historical novel about the ambiguities of the Jewish-American experience, presenting ideas and disputes as volatile as its tightly-wound plot.” The novel also won the 2021 National Jewish Book Award.