The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century Business_Gift_Guide A woman nonchalantly hacks off

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our collective fixation with the surface

” —Los Angeles Times

But for progress to take place

The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century Business_Gift_Guide A woman nonchalantly hacks offAn 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