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Karen Weisman

Karen Weisman is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and author of the recently-released Singing in a Foreign Land: Anglo-Jewish Poetry, 1812–1847 (University of Pennsylvania Press).

Raising the Asmonean Banner

November 29, 2018

Raising the Asmonean Banner

By: Karen Weisman

Two teenaged sisters wrote surprisingly sophisticated and moving poetry about the Maccabees and a medieval massacre.

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