Har­ry Freed­man is Britain’s lead­ing author of pop­u­lar works of Jew­ish cul­ture and his­to­ry. He has pub­lished sev­er­al books with Blooms­bury Con­tin­u­um, includ­ing Leonard Cohen: The Mys­ti­cal Roots of Genius and Kab­bal­ah: Secre­cy, Scan­dal and the Soul, which was par­tic­u­lar­ly suc­cess­ful in the USA. His oth­er titles include The Tal­mud: A Biog­ra­phy and The Mur­der­ous His­to­ry of Bible Trans­la­tions. He has writ­ten for the Guardian, Jew­ish Chron­i­cle, Jew­ish Quar­ter­ly, Judaism Today and con­tributed to the Ency­clopae­dia of Mod­ern Jew­ish Cul­ture.