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Essay Detective Fiction and the Zionist Cultural Revolution Today on the Visiting Scribe, D. A. Mishani continues with his series “The Mystery of the Hebrew Detective,” where he has been investigating why it’s so… D. A. Mishani May 29, 2013
Essay The Mystery of the Hebrew Detective: The Investigation Begins Yesterday, D. A. Mishani wondered why it’s so difficult to write a detective in Hebrew. His first detective novel, The Missing File, was published by… D. A. Mishani May 28, 2013
Essay D. A. Mishani and the Mystery of the Hebrew Detective D. A. Mishani is an Israeli crime writer, editor, and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction. His first detective novel, The Missing… D. A. Mishani May 27, 2013
Nonfiction The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989 – 2011 Daniel C. Kurtzer, Scott B. Lasensky, & Shibley Z. Telhami
Nonfiction Tiny Dynamo: How One of the World’s Smallest Countries is Producing Some of Our Most Important Inventions Marcella Rosen
Nonfiction Tiptoeing on Minefields: How to Improve the Flow of Ideas Between Israel and the Diaspora Without It Necessarily Exploding in Your Face Joelle Fiss
Nonfiction Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation Yossi Klein Halevi
Nonfiction What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?: A Memoir of Jerusalem David Harris-Gershon
Nonfiction State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State Jonathan Schanzer
Essay Shani Boianjiu on Writing Forever Stories We prompted this year’s Sami Rohr Prize awardees to write about “how they came to write their book.” Over the next several weeks, we’ll share their responses. Today, Shani… Shani Boianjiu May 9, 2013