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During quiet moments away from teaching, preparing for class or directing a library, the following Hebrew College faculty members recently read the following books for pleasure:


Sol SchimmelSol Schimmel
Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Penguin Books, 1999). "I enjoy reading aloud poems such as 'Tintern Abbey' and 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.'"



Jacob MeskinJacob Meskin
Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman (W.W. Norton, 2003). "Perhaps the best and most important of the books to come out in the wake of 9/11. Dispensing with the usual left-wing or right-wing bromides, Berman reveals in a very scholarly way the precise and perhaps surprising patterns that lie behind the rise of radical Islam. A tour de force that really changed how I think."


Judith SegalJudith Segal
The Book of Intimate Grammar by David Grossman (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1994). "The masterful creation of a child's thoughts and observations as he stumbles, troublingly, into adolescence. I am now a fan of the author, an Israeli novelist and journalist."



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