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William Kolbrener

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William Kolbrener is professor of English Literature at Bar Ilan University. He is the author of Milton’s Warring Angels (1996), Open Minded Torah: Of Irony, Fundamentalism and Love (2011), The Last Rabbi: Joseph Soloveitchik and Talmudic Tradition (2016) and Melancholy Aesthetics – from Milton to Addison (forthcoming).

William Kolbrener's articles

Diary from Ramat Gan | ‘The humanities classroom is one of the great achievements of Western civilisation’

By William Kolbrener
 William Kolbrener is professor of English Literature at Bar Ilan University. He has written widely on the literature, politics... Read more > November 2020

Book Review | We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel

By William Kolbrener
 Daniel Gordis’s We Stand Divided is the latest book on the growing rift between American Jews and Israelis.... Read more > January 2020

The BDS Faith: Judaism without Zion

By William Kolbrener
 Jews don’t know what antisemitism is because they don’t have the right definition of Judaism. Such is the... Read more > December 2019

The BDS mindset is a challenge to liberal democracy here, as well as in Israel. Centrists must defend a precious...

By William Kolbrener
 William Kolbrener is professor of English Literature at Bar Ilan University and the author of several books including Milton’s Warring... Read more > October 2019

Poisonous Pedagogy: Israel Hatred and the Collapse of Liberal Education

By William Kolbrener
 Professor William Kolbrener reflects on the corrupting and ideologised pedagogy in higher education that is creating ‘a moral... Read more > September 2019

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