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…A •W •E •S •0 •IVI •E Three memoirs prove once again that a writer's own story is often the most interesting. In Love With Language Spare, Haunting Prose mos Oz is arguably Israel's leading writer. His best-selling novels include My Michael, To Know a Woman, and Black Box. In addi- tion, he has, as a political activist, written some 450 articles, many of them in support of the Peace Now movement. Not surprisingly, he has for some time been...…
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…Arts & tie IN LOVE WITH LANGUAGE from page 39 portraits. I was struck by how Oz's seeming- ly meandering narrative mirrors that of Garcia Marquez's luminescent Living to Tell tomes in his briefcase), and his uncle, Joseph Klausner, a world-class scholar and author of Judaism and humanism, figures prominently in Oz's reminiscences. Oz's parents were, like many Jewish intellectuals, people who defined high culture in European terms but who a...…
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…ALL'S FARE Yossi Benjamin with his son, Dean, 9 COMING HOME Yossi's provides authentic flavors from Israel. BY ANNABEL COHEN PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANGIE BAAN new restaurant in town goes by a single name, Yossi's. Serving Israeli cuisine, it opened in October with little fanfare. Yet Yossi's already has its regulars — people who come in three times a week and more. They are Israeli expatriates hungry for flavors they remember and those who simpl...…
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