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		<title>Spinoza and me</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baruch de Spinoza]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s amazing how much things can change over the years. This morning, I came across a blog post I wrote in the beginning of 2008. In it, I talked about how I struggled to understand Spinoza’s Ethics and that until &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2011/12/spinoza-and-me/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New biography of David Ben-Gurion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Ben-Gurion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shimon Peres]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At first glance, the thought of reading a biography of David Ben-Gurion written by Shimon Peres may seem like a waste of time. After all, Peres considers Ben-Gurion his hero and mentor so you can’t expect any sort of objective &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2011/10/new-biography-of-david-ben-gurion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>History of Jerusalem is biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The interest in certain topics of history seems to be endless. Jerusalem is one of them. The oldest part of the city was settled around 4,000 BCE. Three of the world’s most dominant religions consider it a holy place. It &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2011/10/history-of-jerusalem-is-biography/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Saul Bellow on being a Jew and a writer — Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saul Bellow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Review of Books published the second of a two-part series that excerpted a lecture given by Saul Bellow in 1988 on being a Jewish writer in America. As you may expect, there&#8217;s a lot to chew on &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2011/10/saul-bellow-on-being-a-jew-and-a-writer-%e2%80%94-part-ii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New biography of Ariel Sharon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In The News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new book on Ariel Sharon, written by his son, Gilad, will appear in English and Hebrew tomorrow. According to a story in Ha&#8217;Aretz, Gilad Sharon has been working on the book, titled Sharon: The Life of a Leader, for &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2011/10/new-biography-of-ariel-sharon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Selections on Gilad Shalit&#8217;s release</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a sampling of articles and essays about the release of Gilad Shalit: Bradley Burston in Ha&#8217;Aretz writes about why the deal was worth it. Alon Pinkas writes about the conflicting values behind the Shalit deal. Michael Weiss writes about &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2011/10/selections-on-gilad-shalits-release/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Saul Bellow on being a Jewish writer in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saul Bellow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Review of Books has published for the first time excerpts from a talk given in 1988 by Saul Bellow. It is, as you may expect, a very nuanced speech that catalogs Bellow&#8217;s thoughts on being a Jew, &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2011/10/saul-bellow-on-being-a-jewish-writer-in-america/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Into Fiction: Interviews in 614</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Author Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The annual books issue of 614: the HBI ezine is out now and this year it features conversations with five Jewish fiction authors. First there&#8217;s Alyson Richman who wrote The Lost Wife, a novel about a couple who are reunited &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2011/10/fall-into-fiction-interviews-in-614/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New book examines Suez canal crossing</title>
		<link>http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2011/10/new-book-examines-suez-canal-crossing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Israel Defense Force’s crossing of the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War has received a new treatment in a recently-published Hebrew language book by Amiram Ezov. The book, Tzliha: Shishim Sha’ot Be’Oktober 1973 (Crossing: Sixty Hours in October 1973‏), &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2011/10/new-book-examines-suez-canal-crossing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Emanuel Litvinoff, poet who rebuked T. S. Eliot, dies at 96</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I would be remiss if I did not mark the passing of Emanuel Litvinoff, a Jewish poet who publicly rebuked T.S. Eliot&#8217;s anti-Semitism in 1951. Litvinoff, who lived in London, died late last month at the age of 96. Margalit &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2011/10/emanuel-litvinoff-poet-who-rebuked-t-s-eliot-dies-at-96/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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