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Appelfield is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University at Beersheva

Contributors include Moyshe Kulbak

The Synagogues of New York’s Lower East Side became the authoritative study of the subject

Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory by Sherry Simon National Jewish Book Award Winner hamantaschenAll cities are multilingual, but there are some where language relations have a special importance. These are cities where more than one historically rooted language community lays claim to the territory of the city. This book focuses on four such linguistically divided cities: Calcutta, Trieste, Barcelona, and Montreal. Though living with the ever present threat of conflict, these cities offer the possibility of creative interaction across competing