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Culture Jigsaw Tales of Wandering Jews
Laish By Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Aloma Halter Schocken Books, 240 pages, $23.95. Celebrated author and Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld commemorates the collective past by populating his creative work with a wide assortment of Jewish characters. In his multifaceted fictional world, Appelfeld constructs a panorama of Jewish life before, during and after the Shoah. In…
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News Remembering the Woman
Small Change: A Collection of Stories By Yehudit Hendel Brandeis University Press/ University Press of New England, 142 pages, $19.95. * * *| Yehudit Hendel is being rediscovered. Hendel, born in 1926, first established herself as a major Israeli author in the 1950s, a time when very few female Hebrew prose writers gained wide recognition,…
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