Now that my book about poets and their graves has gone to press in Hebrew, I thought I would spend the day cleaning up the mess I made when I came back from New York.  After a few hours of this i threw my back out again and had to rest.  So I wound up reading ha’aretz about books in Arabic about Jews.  And there I found that Nada Abdelsamad had just published an expanded edition of her book about Jews in Beirut.  In Arabic.  I managed to download it and begin to translate the introduction with the helo of gpt, and wow.  If I don’t control myself I’ll translate it all. the earlier version, called Wadi Abou Jamil: Stories of the Jews of Beirut, but a new version appeared last month.

I don’t understand why it hasn’t appeared in English or Hebrew.

I’ll have to find an ex-student who will help me.