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...longer. Shulamit Aloni, an outspoken member of the Israeli Knesset, recently suggested that there has been too much focus on classical Jewish literature in Israeli schools. She recommended a little less Judah ha-Levi (the towering figure of medieval Hebrew literature) and a litte more Rabelais. While it is not fair to implicate all secular Israelis in the switch from Hebrew to French literature, the trend is there. And insofar as its boosters would have Israel become an ersatz California or phony France, the trend...
...towers, illuminated at night, are etched with quotations from survivors, including author Primo Levi, at eye-level, and are open...
DIED. WALTER HAAS, 79, heir of jeans maker Levi Strauss, beloved by Oaklanders for acquiring the A's in 1980 to keep the baseball team on home turf; in San Francisco...
...also like to point out the clothing department, particularly the big Levi's section. With Mass Army Navy right up the street and the Gap in the other direction,why would students buy jeans at the Coop...
Soon thereafter, Levi Lyman, alias Dr. Griffin, checked into a hotel in Philadelphia on Barnum's payroll. After a few days he invited his landlord to inspect the mermaid. The landlord, greatly excited, urged the British doctor to let a few of his friends, including several reporters, have a look at it. And, as Barnum smugly notes in his autobiography, everyone was convinced that it was a genuine article, "nor is this to be wondered at, since, if it was a work of art, the monkey and fish were so nicely conjoined that no human eye could detect the point...