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Article: Abba Eban, New Yorker: At 80, as for most of his life, Israel's
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- The Jewish Week
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- February 24, 1995
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Steve Lipman
The Jewish Week
02-24-1995
Abba Eban, New Yorker: At 80, as for most of his life, Israel's eloquent. elder statesman is almost at home in two cultures.
Abba Eban's invitation to the diaspora has never expired.
Nearly five decades after he crossed the Atlantic for the first time, four decades after he orated Israel's case in the diplomatic hallways of New York and Washington, three decades after he served a succession of ministerial posts in Jerusalem, less than a decade after he left the Knesset as the Labor Party's haver non grata, Eban is back in New York.
For six months a year, the one-time voice of Israel has a 19th-floor view of the Upper East Side. A Park Avenue residency ...