Introduction -- Barukh Kurzweil : a cultural biography -- Metaphysical postulates underlying Kurzweil's literary criticism -- Kurzweil's esthetics and theory of criticism -- Kurzweil on modern Hebrew literature I. Theoretical structure -- Kurzweil on modern Hebrew literature II. The structure of the practical criticism -- Barukh Kurzweil : the sensibility of Weimar Germany in Ramat Gan