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    Ari Hoff­man

    Ari R. Hoff­man is a doc­tor­al can­di­date in Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture at Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty. He is cur­rent­ly a Dex­ter Dis­ser­ta­tion Com­ple­tion Fellow.
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    Matti Friedman Winner of the 2018 Natan Book Award
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    Amichai’s Jerusalem

    The best guide to this strange place called Jerusalem might be Yehu­da Amichai, a poet whose work seems per­ma­nent­ly sus­pend­ed between the sec­u­lar and sacred.

    Ari Hoff­man
    December 18, 2017

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