Games of Masks | 172 just deposed as leader, that what unites them all is their love for Israel . In his excellent critique of Blanche , Ehud Ben Ezer notes the wider focus of Gormezano Goren's Egyptian tale within the spread net of Israeli culture and art . He offers this analysis of the importance this and other Gormezano Goren novels yield : "The great significance of Blanche as well as the other books, does not only lie in that they enrich Hebrew literature and Israeli culture with their presentation of the unique tissue of the Jewish community of Alexandria . It is also that these novels undermine demagogic stereotypes about ethnicity, as though the process of "fracturing" and "disintegration" of values and structures among the oriental Jews in Israel during the mass years of immigration were the product of the purposeful activity or lack of consideration of secular Mapai Ashkenazis and the like . It is as though these people had come from the Garden of Eden . It is as though thei...
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