Libyan Jews after Qaddafi; Israeli psychedelic rock icon Shmulik Kraus; Iceland’s soft financial revolution

Follow Tablet Magazine: September 2, 2011   Sorry, Silbermann Lost Books Daybreak: Turkey Expels Israeli Envoy Plus Iran ominously moves nuclear production, and more in the news But How'd They Get Wolf Blitzer? Press release of the day More from THE SCROLL Right of Return As Muammar Qaddafi falters, representatives of Libya's expatriate Jewish community are on a quixotic quest to become part of the country's new government BY James Kirchick Exactly one year ago, a Libyan Jew named Raphael Luzon returned to his native land for the first time in 43 years. It wasn't a simple family vacation: It was the anniversary of Libya's Independence—Sept. 1, 1969—when a 27-year-old army officer named Muammar Qaddafi staged a bloodless coup against King Idris, who had ruled the country since its independence from Great Britain in 1951. Luzon, the leader of a Libyan Jewish exile organization based in the United Kingdom, was invited by Qaddafi himself. More Ice and Fire Moses, the father of a radically egalitarian legal system, would have dug the soft financial revolution taking place in Iceland More BY Liel Leibovitz Criminal Record Israeli singer Shmulik Kraus wrote a classic of psychedelic rock while sitting in a jail cell in the 1970s. His album deserves another listen. More BY JASON DIAMOND This email was sent to you by Tablet Magazine. To ensure delivery to your inbox, please add digest@tabletmag.com to your address book. To unsubscribe to this email, reply to this email with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. Tablet Magazine | 37 West 28th Street, 8th floor | New York, NY 10001 Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend