From the vast emigration of Jews out of Eastern Europe to the Holocaust to the creation of Israel, the 20th century transformed Jewish life, a fact reflected in a host of novels, plays, poems, and memoirs. Picking up where he left off in The People of the Books, Adam Kirsch draws fascinating parallels between well-known writers and their less familiar counterparts, exploring the lives and works of Franz Kafka, Philip Roth, Anne Frank, Elie Wiesel, Tony Kushner, Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi, Bernard Malamud, and Hannah Senesh.