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This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with one of Israel's finest writers and most outspoken peace activists, David Grossman. His latest work is an exploration of the myth of Samson - the modern ramifications of the biblical strongman.

Daniel Barenboim has been conductor of the Orchestra of Paris and musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Berlin State Opera, a position he held for three decades. Along with the Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said, Barenboim created the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, bringing together young musicians from the Middle East, especially Israel and the Arab world. Speaking to Eleanor Wachtel from Milan in 2008, he talked about the orchestra's historic 2005…

WRITING A NATION: ISRAEL AT 50. Episode 1 of a 5-part series on the Authors of Israel, as it celebrates its 50th anniversary. Part I: Eleanor Wachtel interviews Israeli author Meir Shalev, who discusses the sometimes oppressive weight of history in the Holy Land, the life of the Zionists who first established Israel, and the self-mythologizing aspects of the country's settlers. Part II: Eleanor interviews S. Izhar, the grand old man of Israeli literature, who discusses the novel he wrote in…