54:{"categoryID":5,"categoryName":"Opinion","friendlyURL":"/opinion","languageCode":"en","showAsCategoryLink":true} 55:{"imageID":260340,"imageName":"Books","friendlyURL":"https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_720,w_1280/260340","photographName":"HANAN COHEN","width":"1280","height":"720","languageID":1,"languageCode":"en","imageRemarks":"","imageAltText":"Books","imagePhotographName":"HANAN COHEN","isCloudinary":true,"imageWidth":"1280","imageHeight":"720"} 57:{"reporterName":"RAYMOND APPLE","reporterFriendlyURL":"/Author/Raymond-Apple"} 56:["$57"] 5a:{"position":0,"content":"My life has been intertwined with books. I have written some and read many. When my school started a library I was its best customer. The family knew they could palm off unwanted books (especially Jewish ones) on me. When a wealthy great-aunt died, relatives said, “Surely she’ll leave Raymond a good yerushah [inheritance]!” She did: her mahzorim."} 5b:{"position":1,"content":"Maybe it is because of books that (presumably inappropriately) I like Tisha Be’av. As the day of mourning and fasting over the destruction of the Temple, it includes a series of dirges which bewail centuries of calamity. "} 5d:T432,

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