Jewish Novels Introduction: Why Novels?

This week, Elliott begins a new series on Jewish novels. He begins this week with a discussion of why he is choosing to look at novels, and why he has made the particular selection he has.There are a couple of good articles on Harry Kemelman's Rabbi/Detective series. From the Los Angeles Review of Books (https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/rabbi-knew-much/) and the Jewish Journal (https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/books/378025/sixty-years-ago-a-crime-solving-rabbi-appeared-remembering-harry-kemelmans-rabbi-small-series/)Next week: Elliott begins to delve into novels, starting with George Eliot's Daniel Deronda.As always, if you have any comments or questions, please be in touch with us at [email protected] – we would love to hear from you. You can also join the conversation on our Facebook page, and we're also on Bluesky, so please head over there to give us a follow as well.If there are people in your life who you think would be interested, please tell them about All Else Is Commentary.Please visit our website: https://www.alyth.org.uk/learn-us/adult-learning/all-else-is-commentary/All Else Is Commentary is brought to you by Alyth.We are incredibly grateful to be supported by the Shoresh Charitable Trust. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.