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Editors’ Pick

April 15, 2016

S.Y. Agnon’s Political Satire

“Young and Old Together.”

While satire is not the usual mode employed by the Nobel Prize-winning Hebrew author, the stories in a newly translated collection, The Orange Peel and Other Satires, are a biting send-up of the egoism and pettiness of Jewish politics. Jeffrey Saks and Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi discuss the volume, with a reading by Mishy Harman. (Audio, one hour and twelve minutes.)

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