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Book Review: The Source, by James A. Michener (1965)

Cover of "The Source"
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I recently finished reading an amazing book about Israel and Jewish history, written over 20 years before I was born. The Source, by James A. Michener, is a thick tome spinning an intricate web of fictional stories spread out through the realistic history of a fictional tel1 called Makor (Hebrew for ‘source’) near Acre, in what is now Israel. In retrospect, I probably should have kept a reading diary, because there are so many things in this book I would like to comment on. Continue reading Book Review: The Source, by James A. Michener (1965)

Footnotes

  1. A tel is a hill composed of layers over layers of civilization; these things are everywhere in Israel. []