Elegant and learned, personal and universal, literary,
philosophical, and historical-Hillel Halkin's finely wrought essays
on themes of Jewish culture and life are an education in
themselves. Hillel Halkin is widely admired for his works of
literary criticism, biography, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as
for his celebrated achievements as a translator. Born and raised in
New York City, he has lived most of his life in Israel. His complex
sensibility, deeply rooted in Jewish literature and history no less
than in his own personal experience, illuminates everything it
touches. In A Complicated Jew, Halkin assembles a selection of
essays that form, if not a conventional memoir, a haunting and
intimate record of a profoundly Jewish life that defies
categorization. It is a banquet for the mind. "Hillel Halkin is a
master storyteller and a brilliant cultural critic, and in A
Complicated Jew he combines both talents to take his readers on an
intellectual thrill ride through his encounters with Jewish
thought, art, and life. I envy him his lifetime of adventures and
am grateful to him for sharing them with all of us." Dara Horn,
novelist and author of Eternal Life and People Love Dead Jews "I
have been reading Hillel Halkin for well on to half a century,
always deriving pleasure from his stately prose, intellectual
profit from his deep learning, and inspiration from his integrity.
I am pleased to think of him as my contemporary." Joseph Epstein,
author of Life Sentences: Literary Essays, Narcissus Leaves the
Pool and Fabulous Small Jews, and former editor of The American
Scholar. "Hillel Halkin himself has always been even more
interesting to me than his highly interesting subjects, and here he
gives us full access to his adventurous mind, the dazzling range of
his learning, and his passionate spirit. More than a collection of
essays, this book charts the intellectual journey of one of our
most original Jewish writers." Ruth Wisse, Professor emeritus of
Yiddish and Comparative Literature at Harvard University and author
of If Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews, Jews and
Power, and No Joke: Making Jewish Humor. "Even when Hillel Halkin
exasperates, there is no voice on the contemporary Jewish scene
more intellectually alert or lucid. The work of a cultural critic
of rare breadth, this keenly personal, fiercely argued volume is as
trenchant of tour of Jewry's dilemmas of the last half-century as
any I know." Steven J. Zipperstein, Professor of Jewish Culture and
History at Stanford University and author of Imagining Russian
Jewry and Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History.
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