Chapters on Jewish Literature

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Published in 1899, Chapters on Jewish Literature is a concise literary history by Israel Abrahams (1858–1925), a Cambridge scholar and one of the foremost authorities on Jewish culture of his generation. The book surveys Jewish literary achievement from the close of the Biblical canon through the medieval period and into the modern era, covering the Talmud, liturgical poetry, the Golden Age of Spanish-Jewish writing, Maimonides, the Kabbalah, and the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment). Written for a general audience, it remains a useful introduction to a tradition spanning two millennia and many languages. The work is in the public domain.

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