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Liam Hoare
![Friendship?](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Hoare-1-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
Friendship?
Margot takes in the whats and wherefores of Judaism but is never quite able to grasp the why: why someone would wish to be Modern Orthodox and live a life according to the strictures of traditional Jewish law.
![Doron Rabinovici and the Crisis of European Jewish Identity](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hoare1-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
Doron Rabinovici and the Crisis of European Jewish Identity
To live in Vienna as a Jew is also to be reminded that those who perpetrated the Shoah were defeated yet, unlike the victims, were able to resume their lives afterwards.
![Child of Occupation](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Hoare1-1-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
Child of Occupation
Hidden in Modiano's explosive novellas is a desire for answers, a quest for understanding, perhaps even a search for identity, all of which becomes clearer as his writing matures and his methodical qualities rise to the surface.