A Book that Was Lost

About the Editors

Nahum N. Glatzer (1903–1990) was a noted American literary scholar, theologian, and editor. Born in Lemberg, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Frankfurt. In 1938 he emigrated to the United States. He taught at Chicago, New York, Brandeis and Boston Universities during his long career. He was the editor of Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, and a consulting editor of Schocken Books, an American publishing house where he was responsible, in part, for the publication of Kafka’s writings in English translation.

He is known for seminal anthologies of Jewish sources in English translation; for his study of The Loves of Franz Kafka (New York, Schocken Books, 1986), and for his influential biography of Franz Rosenzweig, Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought. He was also the author of a vast array of other books.

Anne Golomb Hoffman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University and author of Between Exile and Return: S.Y. Agnon and the Drama of Writing (SUNY Press, 1991) as well as many articles on Agnon and other writers of modern Hebrew fiction. She also teaches and writes on the relationship of psychoanalytic writing to literature, with a particular interest in the history of representations of the body in literary and theoretical texts.

About the Editors

Alan Mintz is the Chana Kekst Professor of Hebrew Literature and chair of the Department of Hebrew Language at The Jewish Theological Seminary. Dr. Mintz joined the JTS faculty in June 2001 after ten years at Brandeis University as Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature. Dr. Mintz is the author, most recently, of Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America and Translating Israel: The Reception of Hebrew Literature in America, and editor of Reading Hebrew Literature. His major academic works include Hurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature, and Banished from Their Father’s Table: Loss of Faith and Hebrew Autobiography Dr. Mintz was the founder of Response magazine, which he edited from 1967 through 1970. In 1981, Dr. Mintz cofounded Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History with professor of Literature David Roskies.

Jonathan Rosen is the editorial director of Nextbook, where he edits the Nextbook\Schocken “Jewish Encounters” series. He is the author of two novels, Eve’s Apple and Joy Comes in the Morning, and two works of non-fiction, The Talmud and the Internet and The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature. His essays have appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker and the American Scholar, as well as several anthologies.