Har­ry Freed­man is Britain’s lead­ing author of pop­u­lar works of Jew­ish cul­ture and his­to­ry. His best­selling pub­li­ca­tions include Leonard Cohen: The Mys­ti­cal Roots of Genius, The Tal­mud: A Biog­ra­phy, Kab­bal­ah: Secre­cy, Scan­dal and the Soul and Britain’s Jews: Con­fi­dence, Matu­ri­ty, Anx­i­ety. He has a Ph.D. in Ara­ma­ic Bible trans­la­tion and lives in Lon­don, Eng­land. He writes reg­u­lar arti­cles on har​ryfreed​man​.sub​stack​.com.