The Talmud
The Internet
A Journey Between Worlds
by Jonathan Rosen
Publisher:
Continuum – London and New York
132 pp Price: £10.99
In his extraordinary
personal meditation on the relationship between the ancient,
continuing tradition of the Talmud and the expanding world
of the internet, Jonathan Rosen blends memoir, history and
literary reflection. In the loose, associative logic and vastness
of each, he discovers not merely the disruption of a broken
world but a kind of disjointed harmony. In the same way that
the Talmud helped Jews survive after the destruction of the
Temple by making Jewish culture portable and personal, the
all-inclusive Internet serves a world that is both more uprooted
and more connected than before.
Searchingly, and
with hope, Rosen explores the territory between doubt and
belief, the past and the present, the present and the future.
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