Homeland or Holy Land?

“Profound, demanding, but lucid and well organized, Diamond’s book is a class act!” Choice “ … sensitive, magisterial study … ” Macleans “ … a great interest to serious readers.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch “ … a superb piece of research, empathetic yet clear-headed evaluation. But there is also wit, elegance and personal passion on these scholarly pages.” The Jewish Spectator

James S. Diamond teaches in the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University. He combines two personal and professional personae: a rabbi and an academic. Rabbi Diamond was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary, and he holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University in Bloomington. Adult Jewish learning has been a focal point throughout Diamond’s career. In recent years, he has taught the Tanakh course in the Me’ah program, a two-year intensive adult Jewish learning program that is sponsored by the Hebrew College of Boston. Stringing the Pearls grew out of this Me’ah