Jacob Silverman
By Jacob Silverman
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Culture Bloodsuckers, Serbs and Ghostly Kabbalists
Leeches By David Albahari, Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 320 pages, $24 In assessing the work of Serbian-Jewish writer David Albahari, any English-language reader would be working with half a deck. Albahari, who writes in Serbian but has lived in Canada since 1994, has published more than 20 books, including novels, short-story collections,…
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Culture A Wild Beast Of a Novel
Dolly City By Orly Castel-Bloom, Translated by Dalya Bilu Dalkey Archive Press, 176 pages, $13.95. Dan Miron, one of Israel’s best-regarded literary critics, once said that he sees in Orly Castel-Bloom’s work “a shout of resistance, a scorn for social norms and public taste.” In Castel-Bloom’s novel “Dolly City” — first published in Israel in…
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