PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Kitty Millet is Professor of Comparative Jewish Literatures and Holocaust Studies, as well as Chair of the Department of Jewish Studies, at San Francisco State University, USA. She is also chairperson of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) research committee on Religion, Ethics, and Literature. She is author of The Victims of Slavery, Colonization, and the Holocaust: A Comparative History of Persecution (Bloomsbury, 2017) and co-editor of Fault Lines of Modernity: The Fractures and Repairs of Religion, Ethics, and Literature (Bloomsbury, 2018).
In a work rich in critical insight and alive to the power and magic of religious narrative and theology, Kitty Millet’s marvelous new book argues for the fundamental role that Jewish mysticism and the Kabbalah have played in the formation of modern literature. In these pages, Millet proves herself to be a keen student of the mystics, enchanting us with discussions of language and its secrets while revealing new layers of meaning in some of the foundational texts of modern Western and Jewish literature. * Samuel Kessler, Assistant Professor of Religion, Gustavus Adolphus College, USA *
