Best Jewish Writing 2002 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787962104 ISBN 13: 9780787962104

Publisher: Jossey Bass, 2002

Synopsis

In this much–anticipated annual volume, respected intellectual and spiritual leader Michael Lerner has collected the greatest Jewish writing of the past year. A review in the Los Angeles Times said of Lerner′s first volume, "clearly an auspicious beginning." This new collection lives up to the promise of the first and includes poetry, fiction, and essays that highlight universal themes of healing, transformation, spirituality, politics, and cultural identity. No other book explores the challenges of contemporary Jewish life in a global, postmodern culture through all types of aritstic writing, This 2002 volume reflects the diversity of thought, opinion, and sensibility among Jews worldwide, including Susannah Heschel, Arthur Waskow, Wendy Wasserstein, Jonathan Rosen, Letty Pogrebin, Chaim Potok, Philip Levine, and Adrienne Rich, A special section includes a variety of articulate Jewish responses to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

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Review:

The attacks of September 11 and the continuing Israeli – Palestinian conflict made harsh demands on Jewish ideals and thoughts in 2001. In his annual collection, Lerner (editor, Tikkun magazine) has gathered fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that covers many aspects of Jewish concern and interest. The volume is divided into sections on identity, spirit, culture, healing, Israel, and Jewish response to 9/11. Among the well–known authors included are Amos Oz, Abraham B. Yehoshua, Adrienne Rich, Chaim Potok, and Grace Schulman. Some highlights are the fast –paced and funny stories of Wendy Wasserstein and Binnie Kirschenbaum and the political statements of Sylvia Barack Fishman and Uri Averny. Also, Robert S. Gottlieb′s article on his disabled child is wonderfully insightful. A committed religious life and social activism are stressed in many of the selections, and both sides of issues are fairly presented. Recommended for literary and Jewish studies collections. ––Gene Shaw, NYPL. (Library Journal, July 2002)

"in many of the selections...both sides of issues are fairly presented." ( Library Journal, July 2002)

From the Back Cover:

Best Jewish Writing 2002

David Abram
Allen Appel
Uri Avnery
Michael Bader
Nilton Bonder
Aryeh Cohen
David A. Cooper
Leonard Felder
Sylvia Barack Fishman
Shelly R. Fredman
Roger Gottlieb
Michael Gross
Leo Haber
Bonna Devora Haberman
Susan Hahn
Yossi Klein Halevi
Jill Hammer
Susannah Heschel
Loola Khazoom
Michael Kimmel
Binnie Kirshenbaum
Michael Lerner
Philip Levine
Jonathan Mark
Gail Mazur
Stanley Moss
Jacqueline Osherow
Alicia Ostriker
Amos Oz
Robert Pinsky
Judith Plaskow
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Chaim Potok
Tanya Reinhart
Adrienne Rich
Jonathan Rosen
Danya Ruttenberg
Grace Schulman
Richard H. Schwarz
Jerome M. Segal
Rami Shapiro
David Suissa
Jonathan Tel
Tova
Galina Vromen
Paul Wapner
Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Wendy Wasserstein
Josh Weiner
C. K. Williams
Abraham Yehoshua
Eric Yoffie
David Zaslow

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey Bass
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0787962104
• ISBN 13: 9780787962104
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Lerner Michael