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“... by Cornelis Augustijn, which first appeared in German in 1986; and an assessment by Léon-E. Halkin, translated from the French of 1987. Both authors want us to see Erasmus in the context of his times; both are informative, non-partisan, sympathetic. Each offers excellent guidance to modern documentation. Each is concerned to present an Erasmus to whom ...”

“... Slowly). In his excellent short essay on A Simple Story appended to this edition, Hillel Halkin points out that Szybusz echoes shibush, the Hebrew word for ‘muddle’ or ‘error’. Agnon’s own name is rich in suggestion. To an English ear it seems to combine the words ‘agony’ and ‘anon’, with a hint of ‘agnostic’. It may also remind ...”

“... Of all the raw deals meted out in the Bible – not excluding Job’s or that blighted fig tree’s – Moses surely suffered the meanest. After all he had gone through for Yaweh and the Chosen People, his exclusion from the Promised Land within sight of it was cruelly unfair. Or so it seemed to my child’s mind, as repeatedly in Scripture classes and Sunday school we rehearsed the story of the Exodus, the 40 years wandering in the wilderness and the entry of the Children of Israel into the Land of Canaan ...”

“... Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under licence of family ties will appreciate the merits of A.B. Yehoshua’s A Late Divorce. The public for the book should therefore be large. Yehoshua is an Israeli writer writing about Israelis (the action of A Late Divorce takes place in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem one spring in the late Seventies), so only those readers with an intimate feeling for life in modern Israel will be able to measure fully the accuracy and depth of the book’s portraiture ...”

“... had had their illusions. As Dr Fazil Kucuk, their leading figure, had written in his newspaper Halkin Sesi in August 1954, ‘they have never taken the Greek campaign for enosis’ – union with Greece – ‘seriously because they believed that Great Britain’s decision not to quit the island was an unassailable answer to the whole question.’ If that ...”