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The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist, Julien Gorbach (2019)

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Review of: The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist, Julien Gorbach (2019) West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 504 pp., ISBN 978-1-55753-865-9, h/bk, $32.95   Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures (Jewish Lives), Adina Hoffman (2019) New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 264 pp., ISBN 978-0-30018-042-8, h/bk, $26
Title: The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist, Julien Gorbach (2019)
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Review of: The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist, Julien Gorbach (2019) West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 504 pp.
, ISBN 978-1-55753-865-9, h/bk, $32.
95   Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures (Jewish Lives), Adina Hoffman (2019) New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 264 pp.
, ISBN 978-0-30018-042-8, h/bk, $26.

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