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Leora skolkinsmith s brief novel follows fourteenyearold liana bialik on a trip to israel with her mother and. O israel o palestine selected and awarded a stipend from the penfaulkner foundations national writer in schools program. My mother was born in british mandate palestine in the 1920s and grew. O israel, o palestine by leora skolkinsmith excerpt. Edges, was selected and edited by grace paley for glad day books. Start a book on your smartphone, pick up where you left off on your laptop and even fall asleep while listening on your tablet youll never lose your place. O israel, o palestine by leora skolkinsmith, grace paley isbn. The book was first published in germany in 1929 and here in the uk in 1931 and that makes a good deal of the action all the more surprising as erich. Set in a pre1967 israel palestine edges takes the reader to an israel before high walls formed a border, when, instead, metal wires hung like hosiery lines across the land. Weve introduced patentpending technology that allows our members to listen in a whole new way.
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