Research Catalog

Title

Best contemporary Jewish writing / Michael Lerner, editor.

Publication

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, ©2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lerner, Michael, 1943-

Description

xxvii, 436 pages; 24 cm

Summary

A collection of essays, poems and short stories by Jewish authors most published between 1994-2000.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American literature > Jewish authors
• American literature > 20th century
• Judaism > Literary collections
• Jews > Literary collections
• American literature
• Jews
• Judaism

Genre/Form

• Literature.
• Literary collections.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-421).

Contents

• Introduction : Jewish writing and healing the world / Michael Lerner.
• The many identities of a Jew. To Jewishness / Kenneth Koch -- The melting pot and beyond : Jews and the politics of American identity / David Biale -- Poems. Reversion ; 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 ; 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.
• Reclaiming the spirit in Judaism. 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 ; Science Psalm / Jacqueline Osherow.
• Rereading sacred texts of our tradition. 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.
• Living in the shadows of the Holocaust. 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 as a ghost / Zygmunt Bauman -- The meaning of the Holocaust : social alienation and the infliction of human suffering / Peter Gabel.
• Israel in conflict. 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 ; from Jerusalem, Jerusalem, why Jerusalem? ; The Jewish time bomb / Yehuda Amichai -- Hovering at a low altitude / Dahlia Ravikovitch.
• The pleasure of Jewish culture. Making Judaism cool / Jonathan Schorsch -- Old man / C.K. Williams -- Poems. When you come to sleep with me, come like my father ; 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.

Call Number

*PAX 01-6697

ISBN

• 0787959723
• 9780787959722
• 0787959367
• 9780787959364

LCCN

2001003013

OCLC

47045265

Title

Best contemporary Jewish writing / Michael Lerner, editor.

Imprint

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, ©2001.

Edition

1st ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-421).

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Lerner, Michael, 1943-

Research Call Number

*PAX 01-6697