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Article: Nashim Mi-Tokh Katalog. (Hebrew).(Review)
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- World Literature Today
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- March 22, 2001
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Savyon Liebrecht Nashim Mi-Tokh Katalog Jerusalem. Keter. 2000. 206 pages ISBN 965 07-0907-X
THE PENETRATION OF the foreigner into the cracks of the psyche of ordinary Israelis occupies the three mature novellas that make up Savyon Liebrecht's latest book. The English title "Mail-Order Women" captures the spirit of the work. In each of the novellas a foreign woman enters an ordinary Israeli household, creating an irrevocable change in the life of the family and, in one story, tragic consequences.
The three women -- a Filipina, an Irish woman, and a sixteen-year-old Polish girl -- are in Israel as aid givers. Briggita, the Filipina, is employed to assist ...