The Book of Abraham

Marek Halter

1986

The ten years that followed the arrival of Abraham and Beatrice in Lublin were peaceful and therefore happy, thanks to the Almighty, blessed be He. Abraham and Kalonymos gradually improved the print shop until it could stand comparison with the one in Venice. They printed in Hebrew and also in Yiddish, a rich language that Abraham had to learn; his…

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Marek Halter

b. 1936

Polish-born Marek Halter fled to the Soviet Union during the Holocaust and emigrated to France in 1950, where he became a novelist, painter, and the founder of the International Committee for a Negotiated Peace Agreement in the Near East, which helped organize the first official meetings between Israelis and Palestinians. Halter’s novels have received such awards as the Prix Aujourd’hui and the Prix du Livre Inter.

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