Shalom Goldman
By Shalom Goldman
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The Schmooze Brother Daniel, Jew-Turned-Christian-Turned-Monk
Crossposted from Haaretz Daniel Stein, Interpreter: A Novel in Documents, by Ludmila Ulitskaya (translated from Russian by Arch Tait ) Overlook Duckworth, 416 pages, $27.95 In the struggle over definitions of Israeli and Jewish identity, Oswald Rufeisen, better known as Brother Daniel, was a pivotal figure. The case that Rufeisen (1922-1998 ) took to Israel’s…
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