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Words Lost and Found
On a short trip to document the Aramaic revival, Ben Shields gets lost in a story from which there seems to be no escape.
Ben Shields is a writer and cultural journalist. He lives in New York City and Israel.
On a short trip to document the Aramaic revival, Ben Shields gets lost in a story from which there seems to be no escape.
A Catholic man who loves Morrissey moves to Israel to study writing. Among his neighbours he finds five remarkable people—three students, a teacher, and a rabbi—who show him the ways that young lives blossom and stray among the people of the Book.