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'Footnote' Takes On Ambition, Father-Son Rivalry

by Kenneth Turan, NPR
March 16, 2012

Footnote is set in Jerusalem's Hebrew University and deals with the implacable rivalry between two scholars of the Talmud, the complex and sacred text of the Jewish religious tradition. These competitive scholars, the misanthropic Eliezer and the gregarious Uriel, also just happen to be father and son.

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