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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).
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