The NetanyahusCorbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959 1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historianbut not a historian of the Jewsis reluctantly drawn into the politically charged world of academic hiring. He is co opted onto a committee tasked with reviewing the application of Benzion Netanyahu, an exiled Israeli scholar specialising in the history of the Spanish Inquisition. From the moment Netanyahu arrives for his interview, with his entire family