| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxvii, 436 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-421). |
| Contents |
Introduction : Jewish writing and healing the world / Michael Lerner. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Jewish authors.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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Judaism -- Literary collections.
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Jews -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Lerner, Michael, 1943-
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| ISBN |
0787959723 alkaline paper |
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9780787959722 alkaline paper |
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0787959367 alkaline paper |
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9780787959364 alkaline paper |
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