Essays on Moses from Buenos Aires
Deriving from a meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, this collection is concerned with Moses, helping to understand traditions concerning him. It provides information on the development of learned opinions on the biblical character.
Jews in an Illusion of Paradise
Simms looks into a small group of 19th and 20th century European Jewish intellectuals and artists in the light of their dreams, writings, and moments of crisis. His focus is on essential themes, images and generic patterns, beginning with a Talmudic legend about four scholars.
Jews in an Illusion of Paradise
Focusing on exemplary Jewish poets, artists, and critics once celebrated but now forgotten—not due to taste, but to social and political issues. This book examines their repressed anxieties and the clash with a culture that rejected their “otherness.”