Boyd Tonkin talks with Richard Zimler, whose novel, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon,” “stormed the bestseller lists in two continents.”
“Instead of dogma and diktat, of talking the talk, Zimler's Judaism depends on walking the walk: on being a proper mensch. ‘A mensch is someone who does the right thing: the generous thing, the unselfish thing, the caring thing, the world-saving thing,’ he says. ‘That's my Judaism. It's not a tribal religion for me.’" – from “Richard Zimler: In Search of the Silenced,” by Boyd Tonkin, The Independent