Israel’s Message to Iran: Our Internal Division Has Not Detracted from Our External Vigilance
Explaining recent escalation.
April 4, 2023
Grigory Kanovich, 1929–1923.
Born in the Lithuanian shtetl of Jonava in 1929, the Jewish writer Grigory Kanovich spent most of his life in the Soviet Union, although he settled in Israel in 1993. He began his literary career in the 1950s, and kept writing until the end of his life, producing a series of memoiristic novels about his family, the Holocaust, and Lithuanian Jewry. Kanovich died on January 20. Elena Guritanu and Elie Petit consider his life and work:
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Despite the blockade, Gaza’s fishermen have doubled their catch.
Everyday anti-Semitism.
“As they sat in shul all those centuries ago, they could hear the Song of Songs, and feel hope for the final redemption.”
Grigory Kanovich, 1929–1923.