Rani Jaeger, "Abraham the Hebrew Believer: Secularism and Religion in the Work of Avraham Shlonsky (1900-1973)"
New Books in Secularism
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He Was a Jew, a Pioneer, and a Founder of the Jewish Movement.
Grew up in a small city in the ukraine. A to e his his parents home was something that was very appealing for me. His father was more religiously traditional, even though not strict, but still very much affiliated with his tradition. And his mother was a communist, so he used to describe in one of his beautiful poems that in his parents bookshelf, you confind the bible on one side, or mimonitist on one side,. and len in and, you know, some russian avengard anarchist writing on the other side, looking one upon the other, right? Oh, i know, you know.
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