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Description of  Liberal and Illiberal Arts: Essays (Mostly Jewish)

Socher is one of the sharpest observers of Jewish America in our times. These essays, tracing a journey from a yeshiva to Oberlin College and from Franz Kafka to Rabbi Kook, are a loving, cutting, whimsical, and wise look at a Jewish moment that he senses might be ending.Matti Friedman, author of Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel Read more