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    S.Y. Agnon Turns 125

    Celebrating Israel’s only Nobel literature laureate

    byAdam Chandler
  • Still from an Israeli Ministry of Immigration and Absorption video.(YouTube)
    Still from an Israeli Ministry of Immigration and Absorption video.(YouTube)
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    Mixed Marriage

    The Israeli government wants to lure expats back home with provocative ads. For one American Jew and her Israeli-born husband, it’s a false promise.

    byLisa Ann Sandell and Liel Leibovitz
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    Creation Myths

    Today on Tablet

    byMarc Tracy
  • Yuval Yairi, Memory Suitcase #5, 2006.
    Yuval Yairi, Memory Suitcase #5, 2006.
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    Pilgrim’s Progress

    Creating Jewishness in a post-religious age: Leon Uris’ Exodus and S.Y. Agnon’s Only Yesterday paint Israel’s history in broad and fine strokes

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Leon Uris, 1964.(Getty Images)
    Leon Uris, 1964.(Getty Images)
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    Macho Man

    Exodus recast Israel’s founders as swaggering heroes and secured Leon Uris a place on the Jewish bookshelf even though, as a new biography shows, he was a mediocre writer and a troubled person

    byAdam Kirsch
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    Yesterday’s Hero

    Fifty years after the publication of Exodus, is it time to let Ari Ben Canaan go?

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    Abominable Showman

    Talented and terrifying, Otto Preminger left no taboo unbroken

    byChris Dumas
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