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Shosha

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Fiction
  • History
  • Authors
  • Jews
  • Jewish fiction
  • Fiction,
  • Fiction, general
  • Middle eastern philology

I WAS brought up on the three dead languages-Hebrew, Aramaic, and Yiddish (some consider the last not a language at all)-and in a culture that developed in Babylon: the Talmud.