The Talmud and the Internet
Subtitle: A Journey between Worlds
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780374272388
First sentence: Not long after my grandmother died, my computer crashed and I lost the journal I had kept of her dying.
Description: "Jonathan Rosen blends religious history, memoir and literary reflection as he compares the fortunate life of his American-born grandmother to the life of his European-born grandmother, who was murdered by Nazis.".

"The Talmud and the Internet explores the contradictions of Rosen's inheritance and toggles between personal paradoxes and those of the larger world. Along the way, he chronicles the remarkable parallels between a page of Talmud and the home page of a Web site. In the loose, associative logic and the vastness of each, he discovers not merely the disruption of a broken world but a kind of disjointed harmony.

In the same way that the Talmud helped Jews survive after the destruction of the Temple by making Jewish culture portable and personal, the all-inclusive Internet serves a world that is both more uprooted and more connected than ever before."--BOOK JACKET.