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Leon Wieseltier

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June 14, 1952 in Brooklyn, The United States

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Leon Wieseltier is a American writer, critic, and magazine editor. Since 1983 he has been the literary editor of The New Republic.

Wieseltier was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended the Yeshivah of Flatbush, Columbia University, Oxford University, and Harvard University, and was a member of Harvard's Society of Fellows from 1979-1982.

Wieseltier has published several fictional and non-fictional books. Kaddish, a National Book Award finalist in 2000, is a genre-blending meditation on the Jewish prayers of mourning. Against Identity is a collection of thoughts about the modern notion of identity.

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Average rating: 4.32 · 2,393 ratings · 130 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier, Dawidowicz 4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Nuclear War, Nuclear Peace 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Against Identity 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Kaddish 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000	My rating:
	Tolstoy: Late Writings 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt (Editor), Leon Wieseltier (Preface) 4.33 avg rating — 2,244 ratings — published 1968 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Power, Politics And Culture by Edward W. Said, Bernard Lewis, Leon Wieseltier 4.22 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent by Lionel Trilling, Leon Wieseltier (Editor) 4.29 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Black Book Of Bosnia: The Consequences Of Appeasement by Nader Mousavizadeh (Editor), Leon Wieseltier (Afterword) 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Bite the Hand That Feeds You: Essays and Provocations by Henry Fairlie, Jeremy McCarter (Editor), Leon Wieseltier (Foreword) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating: