04335mam a2200325 a 4500001000800000005001700008008004100025010001700066015001500083020003200098020002800130035002300158040003100181050002500212245006300237250001200300260004600312300002800358504005400386505089600440505101901336505093802355505052903293650004103822650003903863650003503902650003203937651001203969700002803981309425920141022122045.0010524s2001 cau b 000 0 eng  a 2001003013 aGBA1-W8283 a978-0787959723 (alk. paper) a0787959367 (alk. paper) a(OCoLC)ocm47045265 aLCcPULdUKMdC#PdOrLoB-B00aPS 508b.J4 B47 200100aBest contemporary Jewish writing.cMichael Lerner, editor. a1st ed. aSan Francisco, CA :bJossey-Bass,cc2001. axxvii, 436 p. ;c24 cm. aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 418-421).00tIntroduction: Jewish Writing and Healing the World /rMichael Lerner --tTo Jewishness /rKenneth Koch --tThe Melting Pot and Beyond: Jews and the Politics of American Identity /rDavid Biale --tPoems: Reversion and What Kind of Times Are These /rAdrienne Rich --tJustify My Love /rDaniel Boyarin --tTen Ways to Recognize a Sephardic 'Jew-ess' /rRuth Knafo Setton --tRedemption on East Tremont: The kindness of Christians and a seder's matzah helps the daughter of Mendel Beilis fix the old fears /rJonathan Mark --tNews About Jews /rWilliam Safire --tGay and Orthodox /rSteve Greenberg --tSlipping the Punch /rPhilip Roth --tThe Night Game /rRobert Pinsky --tFrom The Roots of a Public Life /rJoseph I. Lieberman --tFrom And What Is My Lifespan? /rYehuda Amichai --tStories: Grandmother Eve, Consecrating the Ordinary, Blessing, and The Reward /rRachel Naomi Remen --80tThe Legacy: A Parable About History and Bobe-mayses, Barszcz, and Borscht and the Future of the Jewish Past /rIrena Klepfisz --tNishmat /rMarge Piercy --tStarting on My Spiritual Path /rNaomi Wolf --tOn Renewing God /rZalman M. Schachter-Shalomi --tEternity Utters a Day /rDavid Wolpe --tA Kabbalah for the Environmental Age /rArthur Green --tIs God in Trees? /rDennis Prager --tThe Emergence of Eco-Judaism /rArthur Waskow --tA Theology of Illness and Healing /rNancy Flam --tDeath and What's Next /rRami Shapiro --tEros and the Ninth of Av /rMordechai Gafni --tFrom the Book of Jewish Values /rJoseph Telushkin --tPoems: Yom Kippur Sonnet and Science Psalm /rJacqueline Osherow --tFrom And Peace and Justice Shall Kiss /rRachel Adler --tFrom Imagining the Birth of a Nation /rIlana Pardes --tFrom the Red Tent /rAnita Diamant --tFrom The Bible and You, the Bible and You and Other Midrashim /rYehuda Amichai --tAaron's God - and Ours: A Yom Kippur Reflection /rSarah Polster --80tOur (Meaning Women's ) Book-of-Esther Problem /rSusan Schnur --tCattle Car Complex /rThane Rosenbaum --tForce Fields /rMartin Jay --tThe Sanctuary /rAlan Shapiro --tThe Trivialization of Tragedy /rJonathan Rosen --tHereditary Victimhood: The Holocaust's Life a Ghost /rZygmunt Bauman --tThe Meaning of the Holocaust: Social Alienation and the Infliction of Human Suffering /rPeter Gabel --tThe New Historiography: Israel Confronts Its Past /rBenny Morris --tLand for What? /rDaniel Pipes --tOccupation and Antisemitism /rJerome Slater --tA Novelist's Optimism: Reclaiming the Jewish Tradition /rAharon Appelfeld --tFrom Booking Passage /rSidra Dekoven Ezrahi --tPoems: From In My Life, On My Life; Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Why Jerusalem?; and The Jewish Time Bomb /rYehuda Amichai --tHovering at a Low Altitude /rDahlia Ravikovitch --tMaking Judaism Cool /rJonathan Schorsch --tOld Man /rC. K. Williams --80tPoems: When You Come to Sleep with Me, Come Like My Father and Hebrew /rYona Wallach --tEsther and Yochanan /rNomi Eve --tThe Twenty-seventh Man /rNathan Englander --tAgainst Logic /rRebecca Goldstein --tThe Healing Power of Jewish Stories /rTsvi Blanchard --tThe Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer /rMorris Dickstein --tBellow at 85, Roth at 67 /rNorman Podhoretz --tJewish Writing and the Spiritual Journey: A Speculative Journey /rRodger Kamenetz --tThe One Hundred Best Contemporary Jewish Books. 0aAmerican literaturexJewish authors. 0aAmerican literaturey20th century. 0aJudaismvLiterary collections. 0aJewsvLiterary collections. 4aIsrael.1 aLerner, Michael,d1943-