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Jewish Review of Books Adventure Story 27 Mar 2017
In "The Story of Hebrew," Lewis Glinert presents Hebrew as a language with a rich and complex history, detailing its survival and evolution over centuries. G...
27 Mar 2017
Jewish Review of Books What’s Yichus Got to Do with It? 4 Jan 2017
Naomi Seidman's book, "The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature," explores the historical shift in Jewish marriage practic...
4 Jan 2017
Jewish Review of Books Reader, I Adopted Him 28 Dec 2015
Maya Arad, a prominent Hebrew writer living outside Israel, creates novels that focus on the lives of the professional class rather than the typical big issu...
28 Dec 2015
Jewish Review of Books The Life of the Flying Aperçu 17 Jun 2015
Morris Dickstein's memoir "The Life of the Flying Aperu" provides an insightful account of his sentimental education, focusing on his Jewish identity and int...
17 Jun 2015
Jewish Review of Books Haim Gouri at 90 15 Jun 2014
Haim Gouri, a prominent Israeli poet, celebrated his 90th birthday last year, with a gala event in Tel Aviv, his birth city, despite living in Jerusalem. Gou...
15 Jun 2014
Jewish Review of Books Nation and Narrative 5 Mar 2014
Yossi Klein Halevi's book "Like Dreamers" tells the story of seven paratroopers who helped liberate Jerusalem in 1967 and follows their lives through the 197...
5 Mar 2014
Jewish Review of Books Spanish Charity 12 Jun 2013
"The Retrospective" by A.B. Yehoshua is the final book in his Sephardic trilogy and explores the idea of Sephardic identity and culture in Israeli society. T...
12 Jun 2013
Jewish Review of Books Israel’s Arab Sholem Aleichem 27 Feb 2013
Sayed Kashua, an Arab Israeli writer, has gained popularity in Israel for his humorous and insightful columns in Haaretz, which explore his experiences as an...
27 Feb 2013
Jewish Review of Books The Rebbe and the Yak 27 Feb 2013
Haim Be'er's novel "El Makom Sheha-Ruah Holekh" tells the story of the Ustiler Rebbe, who has a dream in which his ancestor, the Holy Jew, asks for help. Bel...
27 Feb 2013
Jewish Review of Books Love and War 27 Feb 2013
David Grossman's novel "To The End of The Land" is a powerful exploration of love, loss, and family bonds set against the backdrop of military conflict in Is...
27 Feb 2013