Arthur Frommer, ‘wandering Jew’ who launched a travel guide empire, dies at 95 He wrote his first travel book as a U.S. Army intelligence officer in Berlin.
Egyptian publisher gets 5 years in jail over Israeli spy book Khaled Lotfi was charged with revealing military secrets for printing an Arabic translation of a book by an Israeli scholar.
Robert Alter completes his monumental translation of the Hebrew Bible The Bay Area scholar concludes decades of work on what a colleague calls the "best translation of the Bible into English ever made."