Sunday, December 02, 2012

Insights into Jews and Greeks

A new book by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger, Jews and Words, treats the deep relation of Jews to books and the act of reading:

 

A nice interview of Oz and Oz-Salzberger here.

 Out of print, but occasionally available through resellers, Anne Rockwell's Temple on a Hill gives us a bit of the world of Athens, with great characters and glimpses of the Greek mind: