Leon Wieseltier

Leon Wieseltier is an American writer, critic, and magazine editor. Since 1983 he has been the literary editor of The New Republic.

Related Topics:
Writer - Critic - 1983 - The New Republic

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Wieseltier was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1952. He attended Columbia University, Oxford University, and Harvard University, and was a member of Harvard's Society of Fellows from 1979-1982.

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Brooklyn - New York - 1952 - Columbia University - Oxford University - Harvard University - Society of Fellows

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Wieseltier has published several fictional and non-fictional books. Kaddish, a National Book Award finalist in 2000, is a genre-blending meditation on the Jewish prayers of mourning. Against Identity is a collection of thoughts about the modern notion of identity.

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Kaddish - National Book Award - 2000 - Against Identity

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Wieseltier also edited and introduced a volume of works by Lionel Trilling entitled The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent and wrote the foreward to Ann Weiss's ', a collection of personal photographs that serves as a paean to pre-Shoah innocence.

Related Topics:
Lionel Trilling - The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent - Ann Weiss - Shoah

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During Weseltier's tenure as literary editor of The New Republic, many of his signed and unsigned writings have appeared in the magazine.

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