Café Shira by David Ehrlich, translated by Michael Swirsky; Syracuse University Press © 2022; ISBN 9780815-611424; 200 pages; 22.95. SAN DIEGO – As a rule, novelists don’t make a lot of money unless their works become international best sellers. For Israelis who write in Hebrew, the odds against global literary success are quite high. Novelists like the late David Ehrlich were required to have steady, non-literary sources of income. In his case, it was a combination bookstore and café in Jerusalem called Café Tmol Shilshom (Only Yesterday), which the poet Yehuda Amichai used to frequent. The c…