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Authors return to scene of Israeli espionage

We think we have some important stories to tell, and thus we returned to the subject of Israeli espionage. Our first effort in that field was a book in 1990 titled “Every Spy a Prince.” Twenty-two years later, we spoke with more people and got more stories — about recent events, but also new details about important operations going back to the beginnings of the Jewish state in 1948.

Books: Yehoshua’s latest explores boundaries of responsibility

The U.S publishers hated the title of A.B. Yehoshua\’s latest book \”The Mission of the Human Resources Manager.\” It was, they argued, better suited to a personnel manual than the work of one of Israel\’s most venerated authors. Ignoring Yehoshua\’s pleas, they christened the novel\’s English translation \”A Woman in Jerusalem,\” and the book became a nominee for this year\’s prestigious Los Angeles Times Book Prize, to be announced at the Times\’ Festival of Books this weekend (see story page 36).

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Thank you for your article about the impending closures of Jewish Community Centers (JCC) (\”Buy It Now,\” May 14).

Israeli Novel of Ideas Overpowers Story

Can a work of fiction be important without being successful? If so, it would look pretty much like \”Foiglman,\” by the distinguished Israeli author, Aharon Megged.

\”Foiglman\” was originally published in Israel in 1988 and is being issued here for the first time in English by Toby Press, a Connecticut-based firm with an active editorial office in Jerusalem that has been busily acquiring backlists of leading Israeli writers.

Megged\’s book is a novel of ideas in which ideas completely overpower the novel itself.

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