Harry Freedman. Bloomsbury, $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4729-0594-9
This history by Freedman (The Gospels’ Veiled Agenda: Revolution, Priesthood and the Holy Grail) is reminiscent of the school of Wissenschaft des Judentums (the scientific study of Judaism), in which an honest
accounting of history enriches, rather
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Harry Freedman. Bloomsbury, $28 (256p) ISBN 978-1-63286-601-1
Aramaic and Hebrew scholar Freedman (The Gospels’ Veiled Agenda) vividly explains how and why scripture has been translated, beginning shortly after the death of Alexander the Great, and carrying through to the present day, including the recent...
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Harry Freedman. Bloomsbury Continuum, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4729-5098-7
In this accessible, eminently readable survey, Aramaic scholar Freedman (The Murderous History of Bible Translations) provides a balanced look at a religious tradition whose reach has extended far beyond its original Jewish roots. Freedman explains...
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Harry Freedman. Bloomsbury Continuum, $35 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4729-7938-4
British historian Freedman (Kabbalah) gives his late teacher Rabbi Louis Jacobs (1920–2006) his due in this definitive biography. Despite Jacobs’s upbringing as a traditional ritually observant British Jew and ordination as an Orthodox rabbi, he...
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Harry Freedman. Bloomsbury Continuum, $35 (368p) ISBN 978-1-472-98725-9
Freedman (Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius) takes stock of British Jewry in this uneven treatise. Noting that Britain is home to the longest running modern Jewish community on the planet, Freedman mines interviews with members of Modern...
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Harry Freedman. Bloomsbury, $28 (256p) ISBN 978-1-39941-630-6
Biographer Freedman (Leonard Cohen) scrupulously dissects the historical and cultural influences that shaped Bob Dylan’s music career. Born Robert Zimmerman to Jewish descendants of Eastern European immigrants, Dylan grew up in a small Midwestern...
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