Alex Ringer, “Thistle-Garden (Cynara syriaca f. alba),” Jezreel Valley, IsraelIntroductory note by translator Rachel Tzvia BackTuvia Ruebner was born in Slovakia i…
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March 23, 2016
February 25, 2014This February, take a trip through Europe’s dramatic past and present with these engrossing new translations. The Castle of Whispers by Carole Martineztr. Howard CurtisE…- January 10, 2014This week’s links are filled with both the positive and the negative. New books, new opportunities, and new discoveries make up this week’s positives, but great losses to language and literature simul…
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