The Budding of Modern Hebrew Creativity in Babylon.(The Collected Essays of Rabbi Shelomo Bekhor Hutsin)(Book review)

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The Budding of Modern Hebrew Creativity in Babylon, by Lev Hakak. Or Yeudah: The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center, 2003. 372 pp. (in Hebrew).

The Collected Essays of Rabbi Shelomo Bekhor Hutsin, by Lev Hakak. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2005. 281 pp. (in Hebrew).

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