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November 26, 2019

Jews Surely Deserve a Potboiler Based on a Talmudic Legend

Even one that insists on seeing righteousness in ecological, rather than religious, terms.

Like his previous nine novels, Steven Pressfield’s 36 Righteous Men is action-packed, ready-for-Hollywood genre fiction. But at the heart of the plot is the rabbinic tradition that at any given moment there are 36 righteous men in the world, whose identities are hidden. The twist: some powerful person is systematically killing them off, and Pressfield’s heroes must stop him. Adam Kirsch writes in his review:

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November 26, 2019

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