The Talmud – A Biography: Banned, censored and burned. The book they couldn't suppress, by Harry Freedman, is a superb idea for a book, which the author executes quite well.
The Talmud deserves a biography. It is a most unique book, difficult to define, harder yet to read and study – but it has become crucial to Jewish religious identity in the last thousand years.
Freedman provides a well-researched and clear account of the vicissitudes of the Talmud's long, and at times troubled, life.
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