A rabbi whose name escapes me once said all Western literature was commentary on the Torah. I’ll buy that exaggeration, bearing in mind that exaggeration is both the breath of Jewish prayer and the bone and sinew of the novel when it remembers what it’s for. […] No Torah, no Kafka, no novel.
Howard Jacobson, one of seventeen responses in the article “Is There Such a Thing as Jewish Fiction?”

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