In
1948 some 70,000 books were looted from Palestinian libraries by the state of
Israel. A new documentary considers their fate and the implications of
intellectual occupation.
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Discussion:
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A
study of Palestinian and Israeli textbooks found not bigotry but a "lack
of information about the religions, culture, economic and daily activities of
the other."
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Perspectives:
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By
incorporating trillions of calculations, Bookish.com, the new online
bookstore financed by Hachette, Penguin and S&S, promises to apply Big
Data to book discovery.
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Marc
Lowenthal of Wakefield Press, a publisher of translated overlooked gems,
reflects on what he looks to publish and why the US is such a tough market
for translations.
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From the Archives:
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Due
to 60+ years of strife, writers from Israel and the Arab world do not often
to translate the works of the other, but a few brave souls are challenging
the taboo.
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Thursday, February 07, 2013
The Great Book Robbery and the Fate of Palestine’s Private Libraries
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