Tamar Yellin
By Tamar Yellin
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Culture Wonder of Wonders
Crown of Aleppo: The Mystery of the Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex By Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider Jewish Publication Society of America, 220 pages, $40 There is something profoundly alluring about the manuscripts of great literary works. Whether the handwritten fair copy of “Ode to a Nightingale” or a stray page of Shakespeare, Kafka’s diary…
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Culture Writer in Time
There is still hope for the novel. In a climate increasingly hostile to fiction that does not adhere to the conservative parameters set by the publishing industry, some writers continue to work according to their own lights. Gabriel Josipovici is remarkable for producing novels that belong to the modern European tradition of Kafka and Proust,…
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