Noga Tarnopolsky

By Noga Tarnopolsky

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  A New Beginning for an Old Master

  The Autobiography of God By Julius Lester St. Martin’s Press, 256 pages, $23.95. ——— Julius Lester is the author of more than 30 books, a diverse collection of novels, essays and children’s fables published over a period of 30 years. Now 65 years old and recently retired from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Lester’s latest…

  By Noga Tarnopolsky Dec 17, 2004 | 4 min read
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  Throngs Welcome Home Freed Israeli

  Meeting a man who, only three days earlier, was still, in his words, “dead,” stuck in a cement cellblock of Egyptian solitary confinement, is an experience for which few come prepared. To observe the human parade visiting Azzam Azzam, the released Israeli prisoner, last Tuesday at his home in the Galilee town of Mrar was…

  By Noga Tarnopolsky Dec 10, 2004 | 4 min read
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  Israeli Author Wins European Literary Award

  Aharon Appelfeld, one of Israel’s most celebrated novelists and a writer internationally renowned for haunting depictions of a child’s survival of the Holocaust, was awarded the Prix Médicis Etranger, France’s top literary award for a foreign writer and one of Europe’s most important awards, last Wednesday. Previous Médicis prize laureates include John Updike, Philip Roth…

  By Noga Tarnopolsky Nov 5, 2004 | 3 min read
• Culture

  Israel Uncorks World-class Wines

  By ordinary standards, the Roman-era grape press found a couple of years ago in the tilled red earth on the outskirts of Kibbutz Netiv HaLamed Heh is not enormously newsworthy. It is just another ruin found in a country in which road workers and homebuilders know that any given square foot of excavation probably could…

  By Noga Tarnopolsky Sep 24, 2004 | 4 min read
• News

  Poetic License: On a Quest for Cipel’s Art

  Almost from the first moments that aides to New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey began identifying his paramour as Golan Cipel, the media took to describing him as a poet, with some reports even tagging on the credential “published.” This week, one of Cipel’s attorneys derided this description, saying the Israeli had written some poems with…

  By Noga Tarnopolsky Aug 20, 2004 | 4 min read
• Culture

  Unafraid of Sentiment, Never Sentimental

  Israeli painter Jan Rauchwerger is a small, reserved man of youthful appearance and countenance, his face round and unlined, his eyes inquisitive, a pale fuzz of hair covering his skull. As his wife, etcher Galit Rauch- werger, and two teenage boys move around his Jaffa house, he seems to take it all in through an…

  By Noga Tarnopolsky Jul 23, 2004 | 4 min read
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  Fox Shares His Cinderella Success Story

  Eytan Fox is an intensely private man — so much so that when, during a recent interview in Tel Aviv, he looked up with a start and said, “Hey, next week I’ll be 39. Wow! I didn’t realize it,” it felt like a moment of revelation. Fox, lean and youthful with super-short graying hair and…

  By Noga Tarnopolsky Sep 12, 2003 | 4 min read
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  Disappeared: A Flawed Film on Argentina’s Past Blames Wrong Party

  Spring is film festival time. This year, among others making the rounds is Israeli filmmaker Nurit Kedar’s documentary “Asesino.” The film, which was shown at the Brooklyn Jewish Film Festival and at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival on May 7, presents itself as an angry testimonial to the injustice committed against Argentine Jews whose family…

  By Noga Tarnopolsky May 16, 2003 | 4 min read