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Adam Kirsch

The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century

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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 Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch now turns to the story of modern Jewish literature. From the vast emigration of Jews out of Eastern Europe to the Holocaust to the creation of Israel, the twentieth century transformed Jewish life. The same was true of Jewish writing: the novels, plays, poems, and memoirs of Jewish writers provided intimate access to new worlds of e… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-393-65241-3
  • EAN: 9780393652413
  • Produktnummer: 34557265
  • Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


Adam Kirsch is the author of several books of poetry and criticism, including Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer? and The People and the Books: Eighteen Classics of Jewish Literature. A 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, Kirsch is an editor at the Wall Street Journal's Weekend Review section and has written for publications including The New Yorker and Tablet. He lives in New York.

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