Freud and the Melancholy Rabbi
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2016
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 136
- Category :
Fiction - Catalogue No : 37972
- ISBN 13 : 9781782204053
- ISBN 10 : 1782204059
About the Author(s)
Itzik Stein was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1954. He studied Arts in Buenos Aires before completing his studies in Sociology and Political Sciences at the University of Haifa, Israel. A scholar of Jewish philosophy, he has participated in seminars and lectures on Jewish matters such as religion and assimilation, people and nation, and the dilemma of being Jewish. He has actively participated in Hebrew organizations, generating new perspectives of ancestral matters. In 2005 he published his first book, Malvados, malditos e infames en la Biblia ('The Evil, the Damned, and the Infamous in the Bible'), offering a different perspective on vilified characters in the Old Testament.