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Born in 1856 in Ukraine (four years before Herzl’s birth), Asher Zvi Ginzberg took on the pen name Ahad Ha’am (“One of the People”), by which he is
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
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Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Asher ben David, quoted in Daniel C. Matt, The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995), 66.
Adina Allen • The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom
“Every Hebrew boy in the Land of Israel now weighs as ten, as we have lost Jewish communities ten times as large as the Jewish community of Palestine,” writes Gutman, inspired by Tabenkin.
Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel? 32There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel all their days.
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
He published the work under his recently adopted pseudonym, Shai Agnon.18 In 1966, he would win Israel’s first Nobel Prize.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
In Hebrew, this book is called In the Wilderness.