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How the Talmud Became a Best-Seller in South Korea

THE NEW YORKER by Ross Arbes June 23, 2015 About an hour’s drive north of Seoul, in the Gwangju Mountains, nearly fifty South Korean children pore over a book. The text is an unlikely choice: the Talmud, the fifteen-hundred-year-old book … Continue reading

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