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Adam Kirsch

Adam Kirsch is a poet and literary critic. He is the author of three collections of poems and several books of criticism and biography, including, most recently, The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature and The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century. He is an editor at the Wall Street Journal's Weekend Review section.

Adam Kirsch
Spurred by curiosity about Daf Yomi—a study program launched in the 1920s in which Jews around the world read one page of the Talmud every day for...