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An illuminating introduction by Halkin explains the social, cultural, and historical setting that produced the B'nei Menashe, while an afterword presents surprisingly convincing evidence for their contention that they are linked to the biblical tribe of Manasseh, one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel exiled by the Assyrians in the eighth century BCE

Elegant and learned, personal and universal, literary, philosophical, and historical-Hillel Halkin's finely wrought essays on themes of Jewish culture and life are an education in themselves.

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An insightful new biography of the most controversial and perhaps most fervent of all Zionist political figures

An older man writes to and about his wife... in this moving debut novel by the illustrious translator and political commentator

Hillel Halkin is an American-born Jew who has cast his personal and historical lot with Israel. The imaginary American Jewish friend to whom Halkin directs his onrush of argument is an equally committed young Jew who, however, upholds the possibility of a viable Jewish life outside of Israel.

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An insightful new biography of the most controversial and perhaps most fervent of all Zionist political figures

During World War I, the head of a British spy ring in a Jewish colony in Ottoman-ruled Palestine, the beautiful Sarah Aaronsohn, killed herself. When the ring was broken by the Turks, leaving behind a letter in which she asked to be avenged. Was she? And what did this have to do with the spectacle of four women who ran through the town, jeering and cursing the arrested spies as though let loose from "an infernal world of Gorgons and Furies?" A...