4 Quotes & Sayings By Avi Steinberg

Avi Steinberg is a world-renowned scholar in Jewish Studies. Among his many honors are the American Academy of Jewish Research's Ben Hecht Prize, the Emory University Sondheim Prize for Excellence in Jewish Thought, and the Israeli Prime Minister's Award for Distinguished Contribution to Israeli Studies. In addition he has been honored by The David and Dorothy Steinberg Foundation, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, and the University of Haifa. Avi Steinberg is also an expert on ancient Judaism and has written extensively on Midrash, halakha, and the development of the Rabbinic movement.

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Yet for quixotic reasons--namely, that I enjoyed writing obits-- I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively about the city's dead. For even less money. It was a strange and inexplicable career move. Avi Steinberg
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I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster. Avi Steinberg
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All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a choice the American public has been making for over thirty years. Avi Steinberg