My Father, the Messiah

In her memoir My Father, the Messiah, Gil Hochberg traces a father-daughter relationship as it transforms across decades-from intense closeness in childhood to a fraught distance as Hochberg's father Yossi becomes increasingly convinced that he is the Messiah. After building a career as a statistician in the US, Yossi returns to Israel and becomes an avid Zionist, while having several psychotic ep...