Adam Kirsch
Author
Publisher
Brandeis University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Mainly intended for readers who have little sense of what the Talmud actually is, Kirsch explores the Talmud as a critic and journalist. Maybe the best way to describe this book is as a kind of travelogue--a report on what Kirsch saw during his seven-and-a-half-year journey through the Talmud"--
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts. Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, New York Times), formidable and perceptive literary critic Adam Kirsch now turns to the salient works of modern Jewish thought. From the vast emigration of Jews out of Eastern Europe to the Holocaust...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America's preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era. His was an age when literary criticism and ideas seemed to matter profoundly in the intellectual life of the country. In this eloquent book, Adam Kirsch shows that Trilling, far from being obsolete, is essential to understanding our current crisis of literary confidence--and to overcoming it. By reading...
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