Asher Weill

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May 6, 2019, 2:44 PM

The return of Avraham Sutzkever

Avraham Sutzkever, partisan poet

The 'greatest Yiddish poet who ever lived' was a Holocaust hero who, when he came to Israel, was largely ignored

Jul 29, 2018, 4:07 PM

Likud MK Oren Hazan takes a selfie with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and MK David Bitan, right after passage of the Nation State law at the Knesset on July 19, 2018. (AP/Olivier Fitoussi)

In cartoonist's dismissal, Jerusalem Post dealt a serious blow to free journalistic expression

Sep 18, 2015, 2:56 PM

Limmud on the Volga

Kazan, to paraphrase Winston Churchill on Russia, is at first glance -- a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, in a way that is still very much true of Russia in general, and Kazan no less so....

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About Me

Asher Weill was the editor of Ariel: The Israel Review of Arts and Letters, in addition to Newsview and Israel Scene