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The Talmud and the Internet; A Journey Between Worlds
by Rosen, Jonathan
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0374272387
- ISBN 13
- 9780374272388
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2000. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Glued binding. Paper over boards. [10], 132, [2] pages. Signed by author. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed on t-p. The Talmud and the Internet, in which Jonathan Rosen examines the contradictions of his inheritance as a modern American and a Jew, is a moving and exhilarating meditation on modern technology and ancient religious impulses. Blending memoir, religious history and literary reflection Rosen explores the remarkable parallels between a page of Talmud and the homepage of a web site, and reflects on the contrasting lives and deaths of his American and European grandmothers From an on-line posting: "Jonathan Rosen is editorial director of the Nextbook/Schocken Publishing Series. He is also the author of the novel Eve's Apple; The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds; and Joy Comes in the Morning (September 2004). In 1990, Jonathan created the Arts & Letters section of the Forward, which he oversaw for ten years. Jonathan studied English literature as an undergraduate at Yale and as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. His essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, the American Scholar, and several anthologies."
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71103
- Title
- The Talmud and the Internet; A Journey Between Worlds
- Author
- Rosen, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing
- ISBN 10
- 0374272387
- ISBN 13
- 9780374272388
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Memoir, Reflection, Jews, Death, Technology, Home Page, Website, Harmony, Meditation, Belief, Doubt, Culture, Connectedness, Inheritance, Paradox, Logic, Harmony, Meditation
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