Mark Jay Mirsky, professor of English at The City College of New York published his first novel, Thou Worm Jacob, in 1967, succeeded by Proceedings of the Rabble, in 1971, Blue Hill Avenue in 1972, and a collection of short novellas and stories, The Secret Table, in 1975 with a cover by Donald Barthelme. In 1977, Mirsky published My Search for the Messiah, a collection of essays including sketches of major Jewish thinkers: Harry Wolfson, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, and Gershom Scholem.
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