Podcasts Culture Vox Tablet In The Store, the Arrival of a Second-Hand Shop Unhinges an Israeli Village

In The Store, the Arrival of a Second-Hand Shop Unhinges an Israeli Village

Published: July 29, 2013, 4 a.m.

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David Ehrlich is best known as the founder of Tmol Shilshom, a bookstore caf\\xe9 in the heart of Jerusalem that has long been a popular gathering place for writers and artists. It\\u2019s named after the novel by S. Y. Agnon and has hosted readings by the leading lights of Israeli literature, from Yehuda Amichai to David Grossman, as well as renowned writers from abroad.

Ehrlich is himself a writer, primarily of essays and short stories. Now Syracuse University Press has published Who Will Die Last: Stories of Life in Israel, the first collection of his stories to be translated into English. In today\\u2019s podcast, we invited Brooklyn novelist and performer John Haskell to read Ehrlich\\u2019s \\u201cThe...

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