Following The People and the Books , which "covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, New York Times Book Review ), poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch now turns to the story of modern Jewish literature.
The same was true of Jewish writing: the novels, plays, poems, and.
From the vast emigration of Jews out of Eastern Europe to the Holocaust to the creation of Israel, the Twentieth Century transformed Jewish life.
Following The People and the Books , which "covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, New York Times Book Review ), poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch now turns to the story of modern Jewish literature