Session Details

Wednesday, 27 December

17. Modernist Wisdom

5:15–6:30 p.m., Commonwealth Hall A1, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Literature and Religion

Presiding: Patricia Ann Ward, Vanderbilt Univ.

1. “Counsel for Living: Benjamin’s Storyteller and Kafka’s Parables,” Alexander Gelley, Univ. of California, Irvine

2. “‘For Us, There Is Only the Trying’: T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets and Wisdom Literature,” Kinereth Meyer, Bar-Ilan Univ.

3. “To Love the Torah More Than God: Levinas, Yosl Rakover, and the Suffering of Deus Absconditus,” Moshe Gold, Fordham Univ., Bronx

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