Subject: Re: Salinger and Kabbalah
From: Will Hochman (hochmanw1@owl.southernct.edu)
Date: Sat Jun 22 2002 - 10:39:22 EDT
I studied with a Virginia Woolf scholar who read everything VW was
known to have read. He believed this was the strength of his critical
vision of Mrs. Woolf...as I read Robbie's fine post and think about
Cecillia's addition of the Chosen by Chaim Potok, I couldn't help
wishing I could know if Salinger has read Potok's classic. The
kabbalah would be a text for Seymour for sure, though I'm not certain
he requested it at Camp Hapworth...and I would think that Salinger
may have been curious about the Kabbalah just as he learned to learn
about some interesting aspects of other religions. My first clue
about the existence of the kabbalah came from Robert Bly, a poet, and
that was in the seventies...not only am I wondering what of the
Kabbalah Salinger has read, I'm now wondering if some of those
unpublished Glass family stories use the kabbalah at all...will
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