Abstract
THE PROTAGONIST OF BENNY BARBASH'S Novel My First Sony,' a son of a Holocaust survivor, once describes to his wife his experience as a second generation. Among other details which compose his rather gloomy testimony to his life under the impact of the catastrophes suffered by his mother during World War II, he recounts a traumatic episode which took place while he was training in an officers' school, about to become an officer in the paratroops (in itself a perfect realization of the Zionist nation-building ethos). The trauma was a result of his over-anxious mother sending a letter to his unit's commander, in which she described in detail the young soldier's allergies, listed he was allowed to do and things he was not and asked that he be treated with consideration and care. As the commander saw fit to read the letter out loud to the entire unit, the fellow soldiers split their sides laughing and from then on called him by the nickname Exodus.2
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