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Best Contemporary Jewish Writing
Michael Lerner (Edited by), M Lerner (Author)
9780787959364, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 5 October 2001
464 pages
22.8 x 15.6 x 3.2 cm, 0.635 kg
Jewish culture, identity, and spirituality through the eyes of the brightest and best authors
Best Contemporary Jewish Writing is a treasure trove of short stories, poetry, and essays from such renowned contributors as Naomi Wolf, U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, William Safire, and Marge Piercy. Dive into this rich arrayof writing and you ll see that the Jewish experience reflects universal themes.
The writers in this collection have something to say to Jews, not only to those struggling with their Jewish identity, and also to the wider world. Whether your main interest is in poetry or politics, spirituality or cultural identity, social healing or individual transformation, you ll find Best Contemporary Jewish Writing to be a collection that inspires, excites, and provokes. It also reflects the diversity of thought, opinion, and sensibility of today s best known Jewish thinkers and writers.
This volume is the first in the much anticipated annual series "Best Jewish Writing."
Introduction: Jewish Writing and Healing the World xiii The Many Identities of a Jew To Jewishness 3 The Melting Pot and Beyond: Jews and the Politics of American Identity 8 Poems: Reversion and What Kind of Times Are These 15 Justify My Love 17 Ten Ways to Recognize a Sephardic 'Jew-ess' 29 Redemption on East Tremont: The kindness of Christians and a seder's matzah helps the daughter of Mendel Beilis fix the old fears 36 News About Jews 40 Gay and Orthodox 42 Slipping the Punch 55 The Night Game 70 From The Roots of a Public Life 73 From And What Is My Lifespan? 79 Stories: Grandmother Eve, Consecrating the Ordinary, Blessing, and The Reward 80 The Legacy: A Parable About History and Bobe-mayses, Barszcz, and Borscht and the Future of the Jewish Past 86 Reclaiming the Spirit in Judaism Nishmat 95 Starting on My Spiritual Path 97 On Renewing God 103 Eternity Utters a Day 113 A Kabbalah for the Environmental Age 115 Is God in Trees? 127 The Emergence of Eco-Judaism 134 A Theology of Illness and Healing 145 Death and What's Next 150 Eros and the Ninth of Av 152 From The Book of Jewish Values 155 Poems: Yom Kippur Sonnet and Science Psalm 162 Rereading Sacred Texts of Our Tradition From And Peace and Justice Shall Kiss 169 From Imagining the Birth of a Nation 186 From The Red Tent 193 From The Bible and You, the Bible and You and Other Midrashim 199 Aaron's God--and Ours: A Yom Kippur Reflection 200 Our (Meaning Women's) Book-of-Esther Problem 205 Living in the Shadows of the Holocaust Cattle Car Complex 213 Force Fields 221 The Sanctuary 228 The Trivialization of Tragedy 230 Hereditary Victimhood: The Holocaust's Life as a Ghost 241 The Meaning of the Holocaust: Social Alienation and the Infliction of Human Suffering 252 Israel in Conflict The New Historiography: Israel Confronts Its Past 265 Land for What? 281 Occupation and Antisemitism 284 A Novelist's Optimism: Reclaiming the Jewish Tradition 297 From Booking Passage 300 Poems: From In My Life, On My Life; Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Why Jerusalem?; and The Jewish Time Bomb 323 Hovering at a Low Altitude 326 The Pleasure of Jewish Culture Making Judaism Cool 331 Old Man 339 Poems: When You Come to Sleep with Me, Come Like My Father and Hebrew 342 Esther and Yochanan 346 The Twenty-seventh Man 352 Against Logic 367 The Healing Power of Jewish Stories 371 The Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer 375 Bellow at 85, Roth at 67 392 Jewish Writing and the Spiritual Journey: A Speculative Journey 409 The One Hundred Best Contemporary Jewish Books 417 The Editor 423 The Contributors 425 Credits 431
Subject Areas: Religion & beliefs [HR]
