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Panther in the Basement

Amos Oz

3.70 · Rating details · 1,516 ratings · 121 reviews

Jerusalem 1947. British soldiers patrol the streets, and bullets and bombs are a nightly occurrence. Caught up in the fervour and unrest against the occupying forces, 12-year old Proffy dreams of being an underground fighter. But some of his dreams are less heroic. Temptation lurks everywhere for the youth who wants to be a man - and betrayal not far behind.

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Sep 25, 2020 Bob Newman rated it it was amazing

Shelves: jewish-topics

Does justice lurk in your basement?

The British are still occupying Palestine. The declaration of the state of Israel is a few months away. Twelve year old Proffy roams about Jerusalem fantasizing madly. He’ll be a hero of the Underground, he’ll blow up the Parliament in London, he and the FOD (“Freedom or Death”---membership: 3 kids) will drive out the occupiers singlehandedly.

It was the time when the survivors of Hitler’s genocide poured into Palestine and determined that such events would no Does justice lurk in your basement?

The British are still occupying Palestine. The declaration of the state of Israel is a few months away. Twelve year old Proffy roams about Jerusalem fantasizing madly. He’ll be a hero of the Underground, he’ll blow up the Parliament in London, he and the FOD (“Freedom or Death”---membership: 3 kids) will drive out the occupiers singlehandedly.

It was the time when the survivors of Hitler’s genocide poured into Palestine and determined that such events would not ever happen again….at least not to us. [*Well, they do happen again—Cambodia, Rwanda, Myanmar, Darfur, Xinjiang, Indonesian ‘communists’—but not so far to the Jews.] In a tale of boyhood miraculously recreated, the funny and sad mix inextricably. It’s a tale of Jewish wisdom, Talmudic questions disguised within a story of a kid barely emerged from childhood. Temptation, truth, bravery, loyalty—what are these? It’s also a tale of the naiveté of childhood. Proffy’s arrested for violating the curfew by a British soldier who knows Biblical Hebrew and winds up befriending him, giving him English lessons in exchange for some in modern Hebrew. They meet in the back room of a café at times. Was this man gay? We don’t learn exactly. The kid had no idea about it in any case. Proffy agonizes about being a traitor because he’s consorting with the enemy, but tries to get information about British movements from him to counteract his self-condemnation. He never gives the soldier his name. His two comrades put him “on trial” accusing him of loving the enemy. Proffy defends himself, but recognizes ambivalence. He also peeped at a neighbor girl (sister of his FOD comrade) changing clothes and agonizes over his behavior. The question is about what constitutes betrayal of trust.

What is justice? The Jews had had enough of Europe, enough persecution. But what were they doing? Would not their new state wind up making the Palestinians into the new Jews? Would that be justice? The British are their enemies because they block the establishment of Israel, but are they all so bad? They seem polite and not at all aggressive. Is killing them the answer to anything?
There is a panther in everybody’s basement. Will you let it out? (America’s panther is about to emerge.) It might be a positive quality, but it might be aggression and destruction. Who knows about panthers?

Back in Ukraine, Proffy’s mother once put an old blue shutter into a stream that she believed was circular. She was sure that in time it would come round again. But it disappeared. Maybe it did appear when she wasn’t there. Maybe it’s still out there in a stream extending to the end of the Universe. Can our deeds create results long after they are done? The deeds done to all the Jews of his parents’ former town, the murder of their entire families, multiplied and wound up creating a new country and a great loss for the local inhabitants. I ask again, what is the nature of justice? Will tearing down statues restore dignity and eliminate injustice? Will NOT tearing them down allow justice to rule? Is justice for one, justice for all? How to solve these questions. Reading this marvelous book, written in such deceptively simple style, you may ask how many blue shutters you have tossed into the river. We may ponder the questions, but the answers, you’ll have to find for yourself.

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Sep 11, 2016 Ivana Books Are Magic rated it really liked it

This short novel tells a story from a perspective of a young boy growing up in a complex world. Obviously, there are many autobiographical elements in it. As seems to be a rule with Oz’s writings, Panther In The Basement is beautifully written. The writing style is a tad bit simpler than some of the other Amos’ works, possibly because it is written from a perspective of a child. It may also be that it was written with a view of a younger audience, but it is nevertheless, a suitable read for adul This short novel tells a story from a perspective of a young boy growing up in a complex world. Obviously, there are many autobiographical elements in it. As seems to be a rule with Oz’s writings, Panther In The Basement is beautifully written. The writing style is a tad bit simpler than some of the other Amos’ works, possibly because it is written from a perspective of a child. It may also be that it was written with a view of a younger audience, but it is nevertheless, a suitable read for adults as well. There is something so effortless in a way Amos Oz writes, it is as if writing was second nature to him, as if it was as natural as breathing is to me. Maybe it is. This novel certainly seems to flow naturally.

The protagonist is Proffy, a very young Israeli boy growing up in a country that is just starting to exist. Obviously, this makes him ask a lot of questions. Not always finding satisfactory answers from his parents, he develops his own answers and searches for solutions (mostly in imagination). He is of that age when he is becoming more perceptive of the world surrounding him, but naturally most of the battles he fights are within his mind. Proffy sees the British presence in Israel as a hostile one, but he still befriends a clumsy British soldier. The development of their friendship is described in a very convincing way. Moreover, this friendship turns to be a very touching one. These two and their friendship is certainly the thing I remember best from this novel.

All the characters in the novel are perceived through the eyes of the child, but that doesn’t make them less interesting. One character that especially caught my attention was Jardena. She gave some good advice to the boy. So, she is certainly one female character that I liked. Proofy’s mother on the other hand, despite speaking words of wisdom, remained somewhat elusive. Yet, all in all, I would say that the portray of characters is fairly successful, especially for such a short novel. The protagonist of the novel stands out in this novel and his characterization is certainly well done. We may assume that he is based on the author himself. However, if you want more depth (and more autobiographical details), I recommend that you read A Tale of Light and Darkness, a true masterpiece.

You will find some recurring motifs, typical for Amoz’s prose, in this novel. Take for example his love of books. That is something that manages to find its way into this novel as well. Imagination running wild, that is another thing you might recognize from his other works. Not just in his writing, but in the characters he creates. A single child (a young boy) with an impressive imaginative scope often appears in his writings. There is also that question of loyalty and love. How do we manifest love? How do we prove it? This novel does ask those questions a well. I know it sounds sentimental, but I could really feel a message of hope radiating from this book.

If I remember well, it only took me about an hour and a half to read this book. The writing appealed to me. I like how it managed to talk about a specific period in time, while at the same time discussing themes that are essentially universal and timeless. This is an interesting view into pre-independent Israel that is not devoid of humour. So, what does panther in the basement means? That is how Proffy sees himself (at one point of the novel) but to understand why you would have to read the novel…and why wouldn’t want to read it? I can’t think of a single reason.
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Jul 05, 2017 Alina Maria Cristea rated it it was amazing

Although seemingly a light read, "Panther in the basement" deals with serious topics such as betrayal, the British mandate and the creation of the state of Israel, seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old whose mature yet innocent perspective on life is endearing.

The book is structured as a recollection of childhood events around an important moment in the history of Israel, resembling thus "A tale of love and darkness", which is by far my favorite of Amos Oz's books. ...more

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May 15, 2017 Jonas Pojdl rated it liked it

Charming and well written, Panther In the Basement deals with very adult subject matters, through the eyes of an intelligent and imaginative 12 year old named Proffy. The many faces of conflict in the formative years of the Hebrew State are all here as characters and the story has a large overarching themes of honor, honesty and nationalism.

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Nov 22, 2014 Michael rated it it was amazing

I thought this was a delightful and marvelously entertaining book. I read it on the recommendation of a friend of mine, who read it in English. I read the original Hebrew version. It may have been intended for young adults. Oz has a number of such books, most of which concentrate on his growing up in Jerusalem; most written in a lighter, less erudite style than the one he usually chooses. This tells the story of the bookish Proffy (nickname for Professor), a six-grader who imagines that he's lik ...more

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Aug 13, 2015 Lissa rated it liked it

Shelves: read-in-2011, historical-fiction, fiction, jewish-fiction

This is an interesting story about a young boy living in Jerusalem who "befriends" a soldier, part of the British occupying force before Israel became a recognized country. I put befriends in quotation marks because Proffi, the boy, really wants to ferret out information from the soldier, which might be useful to his little "resistance" group (which has nothing to do with the real Underground). But the other members of his group find him out and brand him a traitor.

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Aug 04, 2009 Chrissie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: life-stages, kirkus, hf, israel

This is a delightful, amusing,short coming of age story. After reading A Tale of Love and Darkness you clearly recognize that this too is about the author himself. Of the two I guess I prefer the memoir, but you get a quick glimpse of the author and his writing style in this shorter book. Such imagination! Such love of books! I also like how the author circles around and around a subject, going deeper and deeper into the core - the writing is never linear. His physical description of temptation ...more

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Oct 12, 2014 Elliot rated it really liked it

While the story was a sweet coming of age story with well drawn characters, wasn't Ben Hur also reflective of Israel as a dominating occupying force in the years since '67 and the protagonist reflective of the Israeli intelligentsia who might have their doubts but also would do anything for the approval and acceptance of the "Ben Hurs"?

Loved the character of Yardena, Ben Hur's older, beautiful, lusty sister who tells the protagonist that Ben Hur will have many women but not on really intimate t ...more

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Sep 05, 2015 Jinbo rated it really liked it

It is a boyhood story tinted by a thin air of melancholy and nostalgia. Incredibly funny. Troubled times and gentle souls. Every now and then, a sense of agitation is felt through the steady flow of unrest, yet once and again, a sense of relief and absolution arises from simply looking into this young boy's clear eyes. ...more

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Nov 12, 2018 Kevin Keating rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I liked that it was about an interesting setting (post WW2 British-occupied Palestine). There were some suspenseful moments but lots of boring stuff too. Overall not that great really.

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Feb 13, 2021 Edina Borbenyi rated it did not like it · review of another edition

I was waiting for something to happen in this book, but the only thing that happened is that I finished it.

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Jul 17, 2009 Cooper Cooper rated it really liked it

Oz’s novel is set in 1948 Palestine just before the birth of Israel. The Jews are agitating for their own country, the UN is stalling, and the British are trying to enforce peace between the Jews and the Arabs, even though the latter are expected to launch an attack the instant the UN sanctions the creation of a Jewish state. To the Jews, both the occupying British and the menacing Arabs are enemies. The book’s narrator is reminiscing about this volatile period, when at age twelve he and his tw Oz’s novel is set in 1948 Palestine just before the birth of Israel. The Jews are agitating for their own country, the UN is stalling, and the British are trying to enforce peace between the Jews and the Arabs, even though the latter are expected to launch an attack the instant the UN sanctions the creation of a Jewish state. To the Jews, both the occupying British and the menacing Arabs are enemies. The book’s narrator is reminiscing about this volatile period, when at age twelve he and his two best buddies had created an underground organization, FOD (Freedom or Die), to attack the British. Unfortunately, the boy had befriended a mild-mannered British sergeant, which had caused the FOD to declare him a traitor—after all, he’d been seen accepting gifts of lemonade and crackers from the enemy.
This is an almost whimsical book about a boy coming of age during troubled times that he does not understand, a book that captures the temper of those precarious times and the desperation of the Jews to find a muscular future of autonomy and strength after the terror and emaciation of the Holocaust.
Panther in the Basement is simply written and very readable, full of insight, and quietly brings to life one of this century’s crucial events.
Here are some samples of the writing:

Our plan for the summer was to finish building our secret rocket. In a derelict hut on the edge of the wadi, behind Chita’s backyard, we already had the electric motor from an old refrigerator, some parts from a motorbike, and several dozen yards of electric wire, fuses, a battery, bulbs, and six bottles of nail varnish, from which we planned to extract the acetone to make explosives. By the end of the summer the rocket would be finished and aimed precisely at the façade of Buckingham Palace, where King George of England lived, and then we were going to send him a proud, firm letter: You have till the Day of Atonement to get out of our country, and if you don’t, then our Day of Judgment will become your Day of Reckoning.

As he spoke, anger blazed in his blue eyes, which were magnified by the lenses of his glasses. My mother and I exchanged covert glances, because Father’s anger was a gentle, literary anger. Driving out the British and repelling the Arab armies required a different sort of anger, a savage anger far from words, a kind of anger that did not exist in our home or our neighborhood. Maybe it existed only in the Galilee, in the valleys, in the kibbutzim in the Negev, in the mountains where every night the fighters of the real Underground trained. Maybe in those places the right sort of anger was building up. We didn’t know what that anger was, but we did know that without it we were all doomed.

There is another kind of people who enthralls me, apart from those thirsty leopards [like his friend and FOD comrade Ben Hur:]. On the face of it these people are the diametric opposite of the leopards, but actually they do have something in common that is impossible to define but not hard to spot. I mean people who are always lost. Like [British:] Sergeant Dunlop, for instance. Both at the time I am writing about and now as I write, I have always found something poignantly endearing about lost people, who go through life as though the world is a bus station in a strange city, where they have got off by mistake and now have no idea where they went wrong or how to get away, or where to.
He was fairly broad and tall, a large pudgy man, but he was gentle. Rather cartilaginous. Despite his uniform and his gun, the sergeant’s stripes on his sleeve, the glint of the silvery numbers on his shoulders, the black peaked cap, he looked like a man who has just come out of the light into the dark, or out of darkness into bright light.

Why couldn’t we all get together just once in the back room of the Orient Palace, Sergeant Dunlop, Mother, Father, Ben Gurion, Ben Hur, Yardena, the Grand Mufti Haj Amin, my teacher Mr. Gihon, the leaders of the Underground, Mr. Lazarus, and the High Commissioner, all of us, even Chita and his mother and his two alternate fathers, and chat for an hour or two, and understand each other at last, make some concessions, be reconciled, and forgive one another?

“But from now on there will be a Hebrew State.” And suddenly he hugged me, not gently but almost violently. In the dark my hand hit his high brow, and instead of his glasses my fingers found tears. I never saw my father cry, either before that night or since. In fact, I didn’t even see him then, only my left hand saw.
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Mar 05, 2018 John rated it it was amazing

Shelves: all-time-favs

Enjoyable in the vein of Harrison & Atwood, Vonnegut & Heller but through a child's eye. ...more

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Jan 01, 2013 Josh rated it it was amazing

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. "Such is our story: it comes from darkness, wanders around, and returns to darkness. It leaves behind a memory combining pain and some laughter, regret, wonderment. The kerosene cart went past in the mornings, the kerosene seller sitting on top with the reins hanging slackly in his hands, ringing his handbell and singing a long-drawn-out song in Yiddish to his old horse. The boy who helped at the Sinopsky Brothers grocery had a strange cat that followed him everywhere and wouldn't let him out of "Such is our story: it comes from darkness, wanders around, and returns to darkness. It leaves behind a memory combining pain and some laughter, regret, wonderment. The kerosene cart went past in the mornings, the kerosene seller sitting on top with the reins hanging slackly in his hands, ringing his handbell and singing a long-drawn-out song in Yiddish to his old horse. The boy who helped at the Sinopsky Brothers grocery had a strange cat that followed him everywhere and wouldn't let him out of its sight. Mr. Lazarus, the tailor from Berlin, a nodding, blinking man, shook his head in disbelief: who ever heard of a faithful cat? He said: Perhaps it is a Geist, a spirit. The unmarried doctor Magda Gryphius fell in love with an Armenian poet, and followed him to Famagusta in Cyprus. A few years later she returned, bringing with her a flute, and sometime I would wake up in the night and hear it and a kind of inner whisper said to me, Never forget this, this is the heart of the matter, everything else is only a shadow.

And what is the opposite of what really happened?

My mother used to say: "The opposite of what has happened is what has not happened."

And Father: "The opposite of what has happened is what is going to happen."

Once, when we bumped into each other in a little fish restaurant in Tiberias, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, some fourteen years later, I asked Yardena. Instead of answering me, she burst into her luminous laughter, that laugh that belongs to girls who enjoy being girls and who know pretty well what is possible and what is doomed. Lighting a cigarette, she replied: "The opposite of what has happened is what might have happened if it weren't for lies and fear."

These words of hers took me back to the end of that summer, to the sound of her clarinet, to Chita's two fathers, who went on living there after his mother died, to Mr. Lazarus, who raised hens on the roof and a few years later decided to remarry, made himself a dark-blue three-piece suit, and invited us all to a vegetarian meal, but that evening, after the wedding and the reception, suddenly jumped off the roof, and to PC 4479, and the panther in the basement, and Ben Hur and the rocket we never sent to London, and also the blue shutter which may be floating on the stream to this day on its circular journey back to the mill. What is the connection? It is hard to say. And what about the story itself? Have I betrayed them all again by telling the story? Or is it the other way around: would I have betrayed them if I had not told it?" ...more

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Mar 05, 2010 Mimi rated it liked it

Attack in Jerusalem...Suicide bombings...Reoccupation of West bank...Bush proposal for Palestinian State...

Yes - the headlines are horrendous... and, as an American Jew, there are times when I find myself questioning my feelings toward the situation in Israel. ...That is until a book such as this, as told through the eyes of the 12-year-old son of 2 Holocaust survivors, comes along reminding me of the importance of Israel to Jews all over the world!

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Oct 14, 2011 Connie rated it liked it

Shelves: youth-literature, israel

Oz’s novel is set in 1948 Palestine just before the birth of Israel and is narrated by a 12-year-old boy. He and his imaginative friends form an alliance to work together to defeat Britain, but "Proffy" is determined by his peers to be a traitor because of his friendship with an awkward British soldier.

Proffy's parents, both Holocaust survivors, respond differently to the tragedies around them. Now and then his mother has quiet words of wisdom,e.g., "To love is not to be a traitor."

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May 23, 2013 Ivana rated it really liked it

What I could see right away is that this is an author that is good with words. There is just something effortless in the way he writes.

This short (at least in comparison with other works that I'm reading) novel was quite easy to read. Actually I'd finished it before the opera that I was listening to was finished so that's like hour and a half...what else to say? I really enjoyed this warm and autobiographical account of a child growing up in a complex world.

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Sep 22, 2011 Karima rated it really liked it

This book is set in in 1947 British-occupied Palestine and narrated by 12 year-old boy. While getting used to Oz's style and the oft-time awkwardness with translations (Israeli to English) I grew into this book, enjoying it more and more with each turn of the page, and was most enamored with many of his descriptions, such as :
- of his father's book collection ( begins on p. 96). AMAZING!
- a sneeze (p.113)
- Yardena in the kitchen (begins on p. 122)

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Dec 03, 2015 Lara Vehar rated it it was amazing

This book may be short - but it was sure fun to read.

The story takes place in Jerusalem during the time when Britain soliders were occupying it. The main character of the story is 12 years old Proffy who describes what is like to live in those times. He manages to befriend a British solider - Sergeant Dunlop.

There was a movie made after this book - Little traitor - it's one of my absolutely favourite movies though it's rather different than book since some things were added to the movie that w ...more

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Jun 11, 2010 Lauren Albert rated it really liked it

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A 12 year old Jewish boy struggles with the concept of loyalty after he befriends an awkward British soldier during the British Mandate. Lovely look at a young boy's life from his precocious perspective. "Anyone who loves," says his mother, "isn't a traitor." ...more

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Jan 16, 2009 Kathy rated it it was amazing

Beautiful memoir. What an incredible writer. Myriad of issues, ideas and questions are raised in this coming of age story.

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Nov 01, 2009 Neil rated it really liked it

A wonderful glimpse into the fictional world of a child growing up in occupied Palestine, on the eve of the birth of Israel.

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Dec 05, 2009 Saleem Khashan rated it did not like it

bad writing boring and slow

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Jan 28, 2010 Gretchen rated it it was amazing

Layer upon layer of deceptively simple prose. This is an amazingly written young adult novel.

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Mar 14, 2010 Jean Kelly rated it it was amazing

Story of the 1948 war from the point of view of a 12 year old boy. You have to love an author who can spend 10 pages of the boy describing his father's library collection! ...more

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Jan 16, 2011 Miri added it

A charming young adult book suitable for adults too.

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Aug 14, 2011 Greg Converse rated it liked it

Have you read Elie Wiesel's Dawn? Is it the same story?
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Oct 11, 2011 Cindy Burman rated it liked it

Interesting period piece. Adolescent stuck on cusp between baby and manhood. Decides to be a traitor and befriend a British Soldier, Pre- Israel statehood. Many symbolism that I did not get.

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Sep 09, 2012 Mirka Breen rated it really liked it

A lovely coming-of-age. In characteristic Oz fashion, it contains the realization that truth comes in gray, not black and white.

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Dec 11, 2012 Jade Vinatieri rated it it was ok

I read this for a class. Not my favorite, but I enjoyed it.

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Amos Oz (Hebrew: עמוס עוז‎; born Amos Klausner) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual. He was also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba. He was regarded as Israel's most famous living author.

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“And when she played the clarinet it was as though the music came not from the instrument but straight out of her body, only passing through the clarinet to pick up some sweetness and sadness, and taking you to a real, silent place where there is no enemy, no struggle, and where everything is free from shame and treachery and clear of thoughts of betrayal.” — 1 likes

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