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Israel

Essay

When Ger­shom Scholem Dis­cov­ered Kabbalah

George Prochnik
March 21, 2017
Essay

Ger­shom Scholem’s Youth­ful Zionism

George Prochnik is the author of The Impos­si­ble Exile: Ste­fan Zweig at the End of the World, a 2014 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award win­ner. With the release of his new…
George Prochnik
March 20, 2017
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Non­fic­tion
The Birth of the Pales­tin­ian Refugee Prob­lem, 1947 – 1949
Benny Morris
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Fic­tion
The Con­tin­u­ing Silence of a Poet
A.B. Yehoshua
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Fic­tion
Neu­land
Eshkol Nevo
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Fic­tion
Khir­bet Khizeh
S. Yizhar; Nicholas de Lange and Yaacob Deck, trans.
Essay

Want to Under­stand Israel? Start Reading…

Inter­nal Dia­logue is a Jew­ish Book Coun­cil blog series on lit­er­ary trends, ideas, and dis­cus­sions of inter­est to Jew­ish read­ers and com­mu­ni­ty orga­niz­ers,…
Nat Bern­stein
March 1, 2017
Essay

The First Sto­ry I Ever Stole

Ayelet Gun­dar-Goshen​’s nov­el One Night, Markovitch won the 2013 Sapir Prize for debut fic­tion; this week she releas­es Wak­ing Lions, which recent­ly received the 2017 Jew­ish…
Ayelet Gun­dar-Goshen
February 27, 2017
Essay

Like Father, Like Son

Richard Michel­son
February 22, 2017
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Chil­dren’s
The Lan­guage of Angels
Richard Michelson; Karla Gudeon, illus.
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Fic­tion
Nec­es­sary Stories
Haim Watz­man
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Non­fic­tion
Yitzhak Rabin: Sol­dier, Leader, Statesman
Itamar Rabinovich
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Fic­tion
Wak­ing Lions
Ayelet Gun­dar-Goshen
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Non­fic­tion
A Land With­out Borders
Nir Baram
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Fic­tion
The Man Who Nev­er Stopped Sleeping
Aharon Appelfeld
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Fic­tion
A Horse Walks into a Bar
David Gross­man
Jes­si­ca Cohen
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