Historian Jacob Talmon admired Israel’s founding prime minister and hoped to immortalize him in the work of a lifetime. But when the controversial Lavon Affair came to represent, in his eyes, a threat to Israeli democracy, the scholar who had built his reputation studying the dangers of political absolutism put down his pen, turned against his hero, and launched a public campaign that would shake one of the most fascinating intellectual relationships in Israeli history.
The Living Encyclopedia of Lost Jewish Communities
Moshe Tzinovitz filled page after page with the stories of rabbis and communities that no longer exist. Now, as his scattered archive is finally being organized, a portrait emerges of the man who devoted his life to preserving the memories of others, while leaving little order in his own papers.
