Michael Oren is one of my favorite writers. A great historian, he manages to compile long and complicated histories in a fairly simple, and easily digestible way. Despite it having sat on my shelf for a number of years, I finally read “Six Days of War,” fairly recently. It is a history textbook, inundated with [...]
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Michael Oren – Thoughts
Posted in Gaza, Israel, Middle East, Politics, Talks on April 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A.B. Yehoshua – Thoughts
Posted in America, Israel, Language, Media, Middle East, Talks on April 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A conversation of sorts, took place tonight between A.B. Yehoshua and Leon Wieseltier, at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C. Hearing him introduced as “A.B. Yehoshua” grated on my ears a bit. Even when reading his name in English, I always heard it in my head as “Aleph Bet Yehoshua.” I don’t [...]
