George Prochnik

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George Prochnik (* 1961 in the USA ) is an American literary scholar and essayist.

Life

George Prochnik is the son of an assimilated Jew and a non-Jewish mother. He converted to Judaism and moved to Israel with his wife Anne to get to the spiritual roots of Jewish life. Prochnik taught English and American literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . They were disappointed in many ways by the spiritual and everyday life in Israel, and the family returned to the USA when the political climate in Israel was radicalized with the murder of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. In the US, the marriage ended in 2001.

Prochnik lives and works as a journalist and writer in New York. He is a permanent contributor to the US magazine Cabinet . He writes for The New Yorker , New York Times , Bookforum, and Los Angeles Review of Books .

Prochnik's book about Stefan Zweig received the National Jewish Book Award for Biography in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize .

Fonts (selection)

  • Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam and the Purpose of American Psychology . New York: Other Press, 2006
  • In pursuit of silence: listening for meaning in a world of noise . New York: Anchor Books, 2010
  • The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World . Random House, 20111
    • The impossible exile. Stefan Zweig at the end of the world . Translation by Andreas Wirthensohn. Munich: CH Beck Verlag, 2016 ISBN 9783406697562
  • Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem . London: Granta, 2016

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alana Newhouse : A Writer Embraces the Scholar Who Introduced the Kabbalah to Secular Society , NYT, May 5, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Prochnik, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH United States