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George Prochnik


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George Prochnik’s essays, poetry, and fiction have appeared in numerous journals. He has taught English and American literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine, and is the author of In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise and Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and the Purpose of American Psychology. He lives in New York City.

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“I'm scared of becoming a noise crank, but I always just loved quiet. I love to have conversations without straining to hear...”
George Prochnik, In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise

“From the beginning, Scholem made clear that Kabbalah is a writer's mysticism.”
George Prochnik, Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem

“wrote her family in November, three months after arriving”
George Prochnik, The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World

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