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    November 3, 2015
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    Can Peace Real­ly Be Achieved Through a Shared Cuisine?

    Yael Raviv is the author of Falafel Nation: Cui­sine and the Mak­ing of Nation­al Iden­ti­ty in Israel. She will be blog­ging here all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe…
    Yael Raviv
    November 2, 2015
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    Imag­in­ing Bud­dy & Holly

    The fol­low­ing is a redact­ed ver­sion of My Father’s Gui­tar and Oth­er Imag­i­nary Things: True Sto­ries author Joseph Ski­bell orig­i­nal essay for Jew­ish Book…
    Joseph Ski­bell
    October 30, 2015
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    Book Cov­er of the Week: The Bus Dri­ver Who Want­ed to Be God

    Post­ed by Nat BernsteinFour­teen years after its orig­i­nal pub­li­ca­tion in Eng­lish trans­la­tion, Etgar Keret’s sem­i­nal col­lec­tion of short sto­ries was reis­sued…
    Nat Bern­stein
    October 29, 2015
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    ‘Slice It Thin’ by Sylvia Leland and Oth­er Imag­i­nary Books

    The fol­low­ing is a redact­ed ver­sion of Joseph Ski­bell​’s orig­i­nal essay for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. He is blog­ging here all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe…
    Joseph Ski­bell
    October 27, 2015
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    In Praise of Imag­i­nary Things

    The fol­low­ing is a redact­ed ver­sion of My Father’s Gui­tar and Oth­er Imag­i­nary Things: True Sto­ries author Joseph Ski­bell​’s orig­i­nal essay for Jew­ish Book…
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    October 26, 2015
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