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...
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.
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