Largest Island In The Sea
by Jeffrey M. Green
Price: $7.99 USD. 77600 words.
Published by Vox Humana Books on May 31, 2010. Nonfiction.
Naples is an overactive city of nobility and squalor, sprawling in the menacing shadow of Vesuvius, and Sicily. At the age of 60, Jeffrey Green finally got there.It meant much more to him than an echo of his Manhattan childhood, for he had been living in Israel since 1973, was now a citizen of Mediterranean civilization himself.
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Jeffrey M. Green
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Jeffrey Green grew up in Greenwich Village, New York, attended progressive schools, then went on to Princeton for a BA and Harvard for a PhD in Comparative Literature. In 1973 he moved to Israel. Since 1979 he has worked as a free-lance translator for several important Hebrew authors, including Aharon Appelfeld. He was the ghostwriter of the Holocaust Memoir, A Daughter's Gift of Love by Trudi Birger, which has been published in more than a dozen languages. Additionally he has published hundreds of book reviews, various articles, short stories, and poems. He is the author of two books in Hebrew, as well as “Thinking Through Translation,” published by the University of Georgia Press.
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