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Leon Wieseltier - Definition and Overview

Jewish American writer and critic Leon Wieseltier is literary editor of The New Republic. He studied philosophy and Jewish history at Columbia, Oxford, and Harvard's Society of Fellows before joining The New Republic in 1982.

Wieseltier's writing, often savagely effective dressings-down of intellectual fads and professorial poseurs, appears frequently in the magazine both in signed and unsigned forms. His best known book, Kaddish, won the National Book Award.

Wieseltier will teach at the University of Chicago in Winter 2005.

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