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Off the coast of Africa, they yearned for Zion
By Jacob Abramsohn |
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"The Mauritian Shekel: The Story of the Jewish Detainees in Mauritius, 1940-1945," by Genevieve Pitot. Vizavi, Mauritius, 259 pp.
Today, 53 years after the deportation of Jews to Mauritius, the most protracted "illegal" immigration ordeal in the history of pre-state Israel, a serious study on the subject has finally been published.
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Reading Israel's fate in its geographical palm
By Natan Wasserman |
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"Rose of Jericho," by Amos Kenan. Zmora-Bitan Publishers, 296 pp. NIS 78.
Inspired by a deep love and knowledge of the land of Israel, this book deals with the narrow strip of country between the desert and the sea: its scents, its springs, its flora and its climate. It enumerates the conquerors of this land and its conquered, those who remained, those who fled and those who returned.
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Sheep-to-the-slaughter Helena lives on
By Saguy Green |
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Lizzie Doron grew up thinking her mother, a Holocaust survivor, was somewhat mad. Only after documenting her life in "Why Didn't You Come Before The War" did she realize that Helena was truly an exceptional and unconventional woman for her time.
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Spinoza: The first secular Israeli
By Yishai Cordova |
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"Spinoza, Liberalism and the Question of Jewish Identity," by Steven B. Smith.
Yale University Press, 270 pp.
While "Who is a Jew?" is the foremost question relating to Jewish identity in Israel, the American Jewish community is intensely debating the question of "What is Judaism?" Steven Smith, a professor of political science at Yale University, addresses this issue in the same way as many other intellectuals, but from a unique vantage point: Baruch Spinoza's "Tractatus Theologic-Politicus," a work which has been described as the "springboard" for all philosophical thinking.
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