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    For the Love of the Land

    George Prochnik
    March 24, 2017
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    Chil­dren’s
    Jour­ney Through Jerusalem
    Amanda Benjamin; Tamar Blumenfeld, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Israel (Major Nations of the Mod­ern Mid­dle East)
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    Chil­dren’s
    At Masa­da
    Sara-Ester Varnai; Miriam Sim Shalom, illus.
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    Fic­tion
    Girl on a Plane
    Miriam Moss
    Essay

    Reca­pit­u­lat­ing a Move Ger­shom Scholem Hypoth­e­sized Long Ago

    George Prochnik
    March 23, 2017
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    Chil­dren’s
    Avi the Ambu­lance to the Rescue
    Claudia Carlson; CB Decker, illus.
    Essay

    Con­tin­u­ous Transformations

    George Prochnik
    March 22, 2017
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    Non­fic­tion
    Hay­im Nah­man Bia­lik: Poet of Hebrew
    Avner Holzman
    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
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