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Necessary Angels

Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem

Robert Alter

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ISBN 9780674606630

Publication Date: 03/01/1991

131 pages

6 x 9 inches

1 illustration

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Robert Alter is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous critical works, including the prize-winning The Art of Biblical Narrative.

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