Jonathan Kirsch
Jonathan Kirsch is the book editor of the Jewish Journal , a longtime book reviewer for the Los Angeles Times , a guest commentator for NPR affiliates KCRW-FM and KPCC-FM in Southern California, and an Adjunct Professor on the faculty of New York University's Professional Publishing Program. He is the author of thirteen books, including the bestselling The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible . He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Jonathan Kirsch is the book editor of the Jewish Journal , a longtime book reviewer for the Los Angeles Times , a guest commentator for NPR affiliates KCRW-FM and KPCC-FM in Southern California, and an Adjunct Professor on the faculty of New York University's Professional Publishing Program. He is the author of thirteen books, including the bestselling The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible . He lives in Los Angeles, California. See less
Jonathan Kirsch's Featured Books
Jonathan Kirsch book reviews
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Harlot by the Side of the Road
I was very pleased with thee book and the rapid response. Read More
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Moses: A Life
Worth Reading
Kirsch writes this like a lawyer's brief and with a lawyer's concern for separating facts from the background. You can almost begin to see the various layers of history piled on top of one another ... Read More
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The Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God
Inquisition History
by BruceHH, Mar 22, 2009
As the subtitle says, it's a history of terror in the Name of God. However, the last chapter notes that God can be a political ideology a la Nazism, Stalinism, McCarthyism, and Bush/Cheneyism. What ... Read More
