Who Wants To Be A Jewish Writer?

Poet, leading literary critic and Columbia University teacher Adam Kirsch is one of our foremost experts on Jewish thought and history.

His stunning new collection brings together his essays on poetry, religion, and the intersections between them, as he explores the definition of Jewish literature and the relationship between poetry and politics, asking questions such as how did Stefan Zweig and Isaac Deutscher, who coined the phrase ‘the non-Jewish Jew’ deal with politics?

Why have so many Jewish writers resisted that category, and is there such a thing as Jewish Literature?