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A Bad Time for Hebrew? Reading a Captivating New Israeli Book at Columbia University

In her latest book to come out in English, celebrated Israeli author Maya Arad writes about three Israeli women in America. Reading it during Israel's turbulent times and in the midst of the campuses protests, it raises important questions about the future of the Hebrew language

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Schachar Pinsker
Shachar Pinsker

I first read Maya Arad's "The Hebrew Teacher" in Ann Arbor, Michigan, when the book was published in Hebrew in 2018. I read it again in New York City last month after it was published in a new English translation. The two readings were totally different.

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