The Days of Awe

Hugh Nissenson

2005

“All vows and oaths we take, all promises and obligations, we make to God between this Yom Kippur and the next we hereby publicly retract in the event that we should forget them, and hereby declare our intention to be absolved of them.”

Gobbledegook, Artie said to himself. The words are gobbledegook. They survived because they got attached to a…

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Hugh Nissenson

1933–2013

Born in Brooklyn, Hugh Nissenson was a journalist, novelist, and short story writer. In 1961, Nissenson covered the Eichmann trial in Israel for Commentary. He received the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Ohioana Books Award, and a nomination for the PEN/Faulkner Award.

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