Written by American novelist Joshua Cohen, The Netanyahus (released in 2021) tells the story of the eponymous Netanyahu family. Set in a college in upstate New York in the late 1950s, the novel specifically tells the fictionalized story of literary critic Harold Bloom's encounter with historian Benzion Netanyahu and his family, including Benzion's son Benjamin Netanyahu, who would go on to become the leader of Israel for decades.
The Netanyahus was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, one of the most prestigious and exclusive awards a writer can win. The Pulitzer citation described the novel as "A mordant, linguistically deft historical novel about the ambiguities of the Jewish-American experience, presenting ideas and disputes as volatile as its tightly-wound plot." Publisher's Weekly wrote in their review that "Cohen’s writing is vibrant even when ruminating on esoteric details on Jewish identity theories. . . . This blistering portrait is great fun."
