In an excerpt from his new book, My Wild Garden, renowned author Meir Shalev shares humorous reminiscences of gathering sabras and ruminates on the link between the cactus and the modern Israeli.
- BooksPicking Sabras With Meir Shalev
In an excerpt from his book ‘My Wild Garden,’ author Meir Shalev talks about gathering sabras and the link between the cactus and the modern Israeli.
BooksJudy BlumeBlume’s ability to translate childhood empathy onto the page, to articulate with directness and compassion just how her readers are feeling and thinking, has earned her a loyal fan base for 50 years.
Blume’s ability to translate childhood empathy onto the page, to articulate with directness and compassion, has earned her a loyal fan base for 50 years.
The Betrayers: A NovelSet in Crimea, this books relates a story that is simple on its surface but deeply scrutinizes ethical judgments, even though the events transpire in only one day.Biographies of Ben-Gurion, BeginBegin only features as a minor player in Anita Shapira’s biography of David Ben-Gurion, but Israel's first leader is a major foil in Daniel Gordis’s "Menachem Begin: TheNazis, Islamists and the Making of the Modern Middle Eastby Jack FischelBoth an Arab nationalist and an Islamic fundamentalist, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini sided with Nazi Germany during World War II and agitated against the Jews.Beyond the ForestBy 2008, Kantor's pictures are in color and include more people—a young woman and her baby, children rehearsing to perform at a retirement home, a table spread withBook Excerpt: The Golem and the JinniChava is a golem, alone in the world after the man for whom she was created died on the journey to America. Ahmad is aThe Rebbe, Three Views: A Book Roundupby David WolpeMy Rebbe by Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz. (Maggid, 250 pp. $24.95) Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History byNo Better Time: The Brief Remarkable Life of Danny LewinNo Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet The premise of No Better Time—that Israeli Internet pioneerA Replacement LifeA Replacement Life: A Novel by Boris Fishman. (Harper, 336 pp. $25.99) Few authors generate the hosannas that greeted Boris Fishman for his debut novel, A
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