Best contemporary Jewish writing.
Best contemporary Jewish writing.
Michael Lerner, editor.
- 1st ed.
- San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2001.
- xxvii, 436 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 418-421).
Introduction: Jewish Writing and Healing the World / To Jewishness / The Melting Pot and Beyond: Jews and the Politics of American Identity / Poems: Reversion and What Kind of Times Are These / Justify My Love / Ten Ways to Recognize a Sephardic 'Jew-ess' / Redemption on East Tremont: The kindness of Christians and a seder's matzah helps the daughter of Mendel Beilis fix the old fears / News About Jews / Gay and Orthodox / Slipping the Punch / The Night Game / From The Roots of a Public Life / From And What Is My Lifespan? / Stories: Grandmother Eve, Consecrating the Ordinary, Blessing, and The Reward / Michael Lerner -- Kenneth Koch -- David Biale -- Adrienne Rich -- Daniel Boyarin -- Ruth Knafo Setton -- Jonathan Mark -- William Safire -- Steve Greenberg -- Philip Roth -- Robert Pinsky -- Joseph I. Lieberman -- Yehuda Amichai -- Rachel Naomi Remen -- The Legacy: A Parable About History and Bobe-mayses, Barszcz, and Borscht and the Future of the Jewish Past / Nishmat / Starting on My Spiritual Path / On Renewing God / Eternity Utters a Day / A Kabbalah for the Environmental Age / Is God in Trees? / The Emergence of Eco-Judaism / A Theology of Illness and Healing / Death and What's Next / Eros and the Ninth of Av / From the Book of Jewish Values / Poems: Yom Kippur Sonnet and Science Psalm / From And Peace and Justice Shall Kiss / From Imagining the Birth of a Nation / From the Red Tent / From The Bible and You, the Bible and You and Other Midrashim / Aaron's God - and Ours: A Yom Kippur Reflection / Irena Klepfisz -- Marge Piercy -- Naomi Wolf -- Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi -- David Wolpe -- Arthur Green -- Dennis Prager -- Arthur Waskow -- Nancy Flam -- Rami Shapiro -- Mordechai Gafni -- Joseph Telushkin -- Jacqueline Osherow -- Rachel Adler -- Ilana Pardes -- Anita Diamant -- Yehuda Amichai -- Sarah Polster -- Our (Meaning Women's ) Book-of-Esther Problem / Cattle Car Complex / Force Fields / The Sanctuary / The Trivialization of Tragedy / Hereditary Victimhood: The Holocaust's Life a Ghost / The Meaning of the Holocaust: Social Alienation and the Infliction of Human Suffering / The New Historiography: Israel Confronts Its Past / Land for What? / Occupation and Antisemitism / A Novelist's Optimism: Reclaiming the Jewish Tradition / From Booking Passage / Poems: From In My Life, On My Life; Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Why Jerusalem?; and The Jewish Time Bomb / Hovering at a Low Altitude / Making Judaism Cool / Old Man / Susan Schnur -- Thane Rosenbaum -- Martin Jay -- Alan Shapiro -- Jonathan Rosen -- Zygmunt Bauman -- Peter Gabel -- Benny Morris -- Daniel Pipes -- Jerome Slater -- Aharon Appelfeld -- Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi -- Yehuda Amichai -- Dahlia Ravikovitch -- Jonathan Schorsch -- C. K. Williams -- Poems: When You Come to Sleep with Me, Come Like My Father and Hebrew / Esther and Yochanan / The Twenty-seventh Man / Against Logic / The Healing Power of Jewish Stories / The Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer / Bellow at 85, Roth at 67 / Jewish Writing and the Spiritual Journey: A Speculative Journey / The One Hundred Best Contemporary Jewish Books. Yona Wallach -- Nomi Eve -- Nathan Englander -- Rebecca Goldstein -- Tsvi Blanchard -- Morris Dickstein -- Norman Podhoretz -- Rodger Kamenetz --
978-0787959723 (alk. paper) 0787959367 (alk. paper)
2001003013
GBA1-W8283
American literature--Jewish authors.
American literature--20th century.
Judaism--Literary collections.
Jews--Literary collections.
Israel.
PS 508 / .J4 B47 2001
Includes bibliographical references (p. 418-421).
Introduction: Jewish Writing and Healing the World / To Jewishness / The Melting Pot and Beyond: Jews and the Politics of American Identity / Poems: Reversion and What Kind of Times Are These / Justify My Love / Ten Ways to Recognize a Sephardic 'Jew-ess' / Redemption on East Tremont: The kindness of Christians and a seder's matzah helps the daughter of Mendel Beilis fix the old fears / News About Jews / Gay and Orthodox / Slipping the Punch / The Night Game / From The Roots of a Public Life / From And What Is My Lifespan? / Stories: Grandmother Eve, Consecrating the Ordinary, Blessing, and The Reward / Michael Lerner -- Kenneth Koch -- David Biale -- Adrienne Rich -- Daniel Boyarin -- Ruth Knafo Setton -- Jonathan Mark -- William Safire -- Steve Greenberg -- Philip Roth -- Robert Pinsky -- Joseph I. Lieberman -- Yehuda Amichai -- Rachel Naomi Remen -- The Legacy: A Parable About History and Bobe-mayses, Barszcz, and Borscht and the Future of the Jewish Past / Nishmat / Starting on My Spiritual Path / On Renewing God / Eternity Utters a Day / A Kabbalah for the Environmental Age / Is God in Trees? / The Emergence of Eco-Judaism / A Theology of Illness and Healing / Death and What's Next / Eros and the Ninth of Av / From the Book of Jewish Values / Poems: Yom Kippur Sonnet and Science Psalm / From And Peace and Justice Shall Kiss / From Imagining the Birth of a Nation / From the Red Tent / From The Bible and You, the Bible and You and Other Midrashim / Aaron's God - and Ours: A Yom Kippur Reflection / Irena Klepfisz -- Marge Piercy -- Naomi Wolf -- Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi -- David Wolpe -- Arthur Green -- Dennis Prager -- Arthur Waskow -- Nancy Flam -- Rami Shapiro -- Mordechai Gafni -- Joseph Telushkin -- Jacqueline Osherow -- Rachel Adler -- Ilana Pardes -- Anita Diamant -- Yehuda Amichai -- Sarah Polster -- Our (Meaning Women's ) Book-of-Esther Problem / Cattle Car Complex / Force Fields / The Sanctuary / The Trivialization of Tragedy / Hereditary Victimhood: The Holocaust's Life a Ghost / The Meaning of the Holocaust: Social Alienation and the Infliction of Human Suffering / The New Historiography: Israel Confronts Its Past / Land for What? / Occupation and Antisemitism / A Novelist's Optimism: Reclaiming the Jewish Tradition / From Booking Passage / Poems: From In My Life, On My Life; Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Why Jerusalem?; and The Jewish Time Bomb / Hovering at a Low Altitude / Making Judaism Cool / Old Man / Susan Schnur -- Thane Rosenbaum -- Martin Jay -- Alan Shapiro -- Jonathan Rosen -- Zygmunt Bauman -- Peter Gabel -- Benny Morris -- Daniel Pipes -- Jerome Slater -- Aharon Appelfeld -- Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi -- Yehuda Amichai -- Dahlia Ravikovitch -- Jonathan Schorsch -- C. K. Williams -- Poems: When You Come to Sleep with Me, Come Like My Father and Hebrew / Esther and Yochanan / The Twenty-seventh Man / Against Logic / The Healing Power of Jewish Stories / The Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer / Bellow at 85, Roth at 67 / Jewish Writing and the Spiritual Journey: A Speculative Journey / The One Hundred Best Contemporary Jewish Books. Yona Wallach -- Nomi Eve -- Nathan Englander -- Rebecca Goldstein -- Tsvi Blanchard -- Morris Dickstein -- Norman Podhoretz -- Rodger Kamenetz --
978-0787959723 (alk. paper) 0787959367 (alk. paper)
2001003013
GBA1-W8283
American literature--Jewish authors.
American literature--20th century.
Judaism--Literary collections.
Jews--Literary collections.
Israel.
PS 508 / .J4 B47 2001