TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lerner,Michael
TI  - Best contemporary Jewish writing
SN  - 978-0787959723 (alk. paper)
AV  - PS 508 .J4 B47 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - San Francisco, CA
PB  - Jossey-Bass
KW  - American literature
KW  - Jewish authors
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Literary collections
KW  - Jews
KW  - Israel
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 418-421); Introduction: Jewish Writing and Healing the World; Michael Lerner --; To Jewishness; Kenneth Koch --; The Melting Pot and Beyond: Jews and the Politics of American Identity; David Biale --; Poems: Reversion and What Kind of Times Are These; Adrienne Rich --; Justify My Love; Daniel Boyarin --; Ten Ways to Recognize a Sephardic 'Jew-ess'; Ruth Knafo Setton --; Redemption on East Tremont: The kindness of Christians and a seder's matzah helps the daughter of Mendel Beilis fix the old fears; Jonathan Mark --; News About Jews; William Safire --; Gay and Orthodox; Steve Greenberg --; Slipping the Punch; Philip Roth --; The Night Game; Robert Pinsky --; From The Roots of a Public Life; Joseph I. Lieberman --; From And What Is My Lifespan?; Yehuda Amichai --; Stories: Grandmother Eve, Consecrating the Ordinary, Blessing, and The Reward; Rachel Naomi Remen --; The Legacy: A Parable About History and Bobe-mayses, Barszcz, and Borscht and the Future of the Jewish Past; Irena Klepfisz --; Nishmat; Marge Piercy --; Starting on My Spiritual Path; Naomi Wolf --; On Renewing God; Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi --; Eternity Utters a Day; David Wolpe --; A Kabbalah for the Environmental Age; Arthur Green --; Is God in Trees?; Dennis Prager --; The Emergence of Eco-Judaism; Arthur Waskow --; A Theology of Illness and Healing; Nancy Flam --; Death and What's Next; Rami Shapiro --; Eros and the Ninth of Av; Mordechai Gafni --; From the Book of Jewish Values; Joseph Telushkin --; Poems: Yom Kippur Sonnet and Science Psalm; Jacqueline Osherow --; From And Peace and Justice Shall Kiss; Rachel Adler --; From Imagining the Birth of a Nation; Ilana Pardes --; From the Red Tent; Anita Diamant --; From The Bible and You, the Bible and You and Other Midrashim; Yehuda Amichai --; Aaron's God - and Ours: A Yom Kippur Reflection; Sarah Polster --; Our (Meaning Women's ) Book-of-Esther Problem; Susan Schnur --; Cattle Car Complex; Thane Rosenbaum --; Force Fields; Martin Jay --; The Sanctuary; Alan Shapiro --; The Trivialization of Tragedy; Jonathan Rosen --; Hereditary Victimhood: The Holocaust's Life a Ghost; Zygmunt Bauman --; The Meaning of the Holocaust: Social Alienation and the Infliction of Human Suffering; Peter Gabel --; The New Historiography: Israel Confronts Its Past; Benny Morris --; Land for What?; Daniel Pipes --; Occupation and Antisemitism; Jerome Slater --; A Novelist's Optimism: Reclaiming the Jewish Tradition; Aharon Appelfeld --; From Booking Passage; Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi --; Poems: From In My Life, On My Life; Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Why Jerusalem?; and The Jewish Time Bomb; Yehuda Amichai --; Hovering at a Low Altitude; Dahlia Ravikovitch --; Making Judaism Cool; Jonathan Schorsch --; Old Man; C. K. Williams --; Poems: When You Come to Sleep with Me, Come Like My Father and Hebrew; Yona Wallach --; Esther and Yochanan; Nomi Eve --; The Twenty-seventh Man; Nathan Englander --; Against Logic; Rebecca Goldstein --; The Healing Power of Jewish Stories; Tsvi Blanchard --; The Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer; Morris Dickstein --; Bellow at 85, Roth at 67; Norman Podhoretz --; Jewish Writing and the Spiritual Journey: A Speculative Journey; Rodger Kamenetz --; The One Hundred Best Contemporary Jewish Books
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