User:Prezbo/Baruch Kurzweil

Baruch Kurzweil (1907-1972) was a prominent Israeli literary critic. Anthony David writes that "In a certain sense, he created modern Hebrew literary criticism." Kurzweil was born in Pirnice, Moravia in 1907 and emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1939. Kurzweil was an Orthodox Jew. Kurzweil headed Bar Ilan University's department of literature and was a columnist for Haaretz. He killed himself in 1972.