In her debut book, Zeeva Bukai delves into the trauma of exile with elegance, passion, insight and sheer suspense.

It’s the tale of an IDF officer who survived the fighting in Gaza only to suffer the invisible wounds of combat trauma, drug addiction and post-traumatic stress after he returns to Tel Aviv.

A lively and deeply informed account of the era when Los Angeles served as a place of refuge for German, Austrian and Eastern European artists, writers, scholars and intellectuals who fled from the Third Reich. 

“Love and War in the Jewish Quarter” leaves behind Tehran as we see it every night on CNN and carries us back to the place as it existed during the Second World War.

Stavrakopoulou insists on taking the authors of the Bible at their word when they depict God as possessing a human form.