When Dorit Rabinyan began writing a novel about a star-crossed love affair between an Israeli Jewish woman and a Palestinian Muslim man living in New York she had no inkling that it would become an affair of state. “All The Rivers”, out in the U.S. from Penguin Random House on April 25, has become just such a political quagmire. In December 2015 it was refused a place on Israel’s high-school Hebrew literature syllabus by the...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 17, 2017 03:56 UTC