Dinah Assouline Stillman taught French language, literature, culture, and French and francophone cinema at the University of Oklahoma for many years. She studied at the Sorbonne and the Institut des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris and has a special interest in Muslim-Jewish relations in France, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Shalev photo (left)– Das blaue Sofa / Club Bertelsmann
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Ronit Matalon/Photo by Shay Ignatz
Editorial note: An abbreviated version of the following essay appears in the May 2015 print edition of WLT.
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