Peter Cole

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Posted on December 22, 2010 by Steve Pollak

New poetry from Aharon Shabtai

Israeli poet Aharon Shabtai has a new book of poetry out. The book is called War & Love, Love & War: New and Selected Poems and it includes work written by Shabtai from 1986 through 2008. From the product description, … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 17, 2007 by Steve Pollak

Odds and ends: Leshem, Cole and Mr. Magoo

Here are a few recent Jewish book items from around the Web: Nextbook Author Diana Bletter wrote an article about Ron Leshem's “Beaufort,” a novel about Israeli soldiers fighting in Lebanon in the early 1980s. The Hebrew version of the … Continue reading →

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Posted on September 25, 2007 by Steve Pollak

Peter Cole wins $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship

Peter Cole, a Jerusalem-based translator, publisher and poet, is among the 24 MacArthur Fellowship winners announced earlier today. According to the press release from the John T. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Cole’s “highly regarded translations of the poetry of … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 9, 2007 by Steve Pollak

He compared Jewish American culture to what?

I’d never peg Harold Bloom to be an optimist when it comes to American culture, especially after he bemoaned the “dumbing down” of American readers when the National Book Foundation gave its annual award for “distinguished contribution” to Stephen King … Continue reading →

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