Observation ·
My Life with Hebrew
By Alan MintzCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Alan Mintz
Alan Mintz is the Chana Kekst professor of Hebrew literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His Ancestral Tales: Reading the Buczacz Stories of S.Y. Agnon will be published by Stanford in June. The present essay, in somewhat different form, will appear in What We Talk About When We Talk About Hebrew, edited by Naomi B. Sokoloff and Nancy E. Berg (forthcoming from University of Washington Press).
