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For decades, scholar’s ‘Zionist’ followers fought to bring his remains to be buried in Holy Land while conservative adherents won’t hear a word about reinterring the rabbi, between them stand Ukrainian authorities who view the tomb as a national asset

Yaniv Iczkovits, author of The Slaughtermans Daughter. (Photo by Eric Sultan) LONDON — Israeli writer Yaniv Iczkovits is no stranger to winning literary prizes for his historical novel, “The Slaughterman’s Daughter.” Since its publication in Hebrew in 2015, Iczkovits has received both the Ramat Gan and Agnon prizes, and the book was also shortlisted for Israel’s prestigious Sapir Prize. But Iczkovits describes being announced the winner of the 2021 Wingate Literary Prize this past Mar...