From Isaiah to the Talmud: Jewish Text as Literary Inspiration – Virtual

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature presents Adam Kirsch, author of Come and Hear: What I Saw in My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey through the Talmud and Aviya Kushner, author of Wolf Lamb Bomb and The Grammar of God, discuss how the ancient can inform the contemporary—and how centuries of Jewish text and thought shape their work as writers. Kirsch writes regularly for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Tablet, and Kushner is The Forward‘s language columnist.