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Lerner, who is the editor of TIKKUN magazine and a rabbi in San Francisco, has selected writings, both fiction and non-fiction, published between 1994 and 2000 (with a few exceptions), in the first of what he plans as an annual compilation. His reach extends to many types of writing, on many subjects, the selections being made on the basis of the work's discerning reflection on fundamental Jewish concerns. Authors include Philip Roth, Marge Piercy, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Adrienne Rich, William Safire, and about 50 others. Also included is the editor's list of the 100 best contemporary Jewish books. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Publishers WeeklyWidely known as a religious and political liberal, Tikkun editor Michael Lerner brings together poetry, fiction, essays and memoir from across the spectrum in Best Contemporary Jewish Writing, which includes work by Philip Roth, Yehuda Amichai, Naomi Wolf, Daniel Pipes and Rodger Kamenetz. Still, Lerner aims for writing "that connects to or reflects the fundamental Jewish project of healing and transformation," both of the person and the world. This book also includes Lerner's list of the 100 best contemporary Jewish books, available in English and published since 1985. This book covers the years 1994-2000; the 2002 edition will include material from the years 2000 and 2001. (Sept.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Introduction: Jewish Writing and Healing the WorldTo Jewishness3The Melting Pot and Beyond: Jews and the Politics of American Identity8Poems: Reversion and What Kind of Times Are These15Justify My Love17Ten Ways to Recognize a Sephardic 'Jew-ess'29Redemption on East Tremont: The kindness of Christians and a seder's matzah helps the daughter of Mendel Beilis fix the old fears36News About Jews40Gay and Orthodox42Slipping the Punch55The Night Game70From The Roots of a Public Life73From And What Is My Lifespan?79Stories: Grandmother Eve, Consecrating the Ordinary, Blessing, and The Reward80The Legacy: A Parable About History and Bobe-mayses, Barszcz, and Borscht and the Future of the Jewish Past86Nishmat95Starting on My Spiritual Path97On Renewing God103Eternity Utters a Day113A Kabbalah for the Environmental Age115Is God in Trees?127The Emergence of Eco-Judaism134A Theology of Illness and Healing145Death and What's Next150Eros and the Ninth of Av152From the Book of Jewish Values155Poems: Yom Kippur Sonnet and Science Psalm162From And Peace and Justice Shall Kiss169From Imagining the Birth of a Nation186From the Red Tent193From The Bible and You, the Bible and You and Other Midrashim199Aaron's God - and Ours: A Yom Kippur Reflection200Our (Meaning Women's ) Book-of-Esther Problem205Cattle Car Complex213Force Fields221The Sanctuary228The Trivialization of Tragedy230Hereditary Victimhood: The Holocaust's Life a Ghost241The Meaning of the Holocaust: Social Alienation and the Infliction of Human Suffering252The New Historiography: Israel Confronts Its Past265Land for What?281Occupation and Antisemitism284A Novelist's Optimism: Reclaiming the Jewish Tradition297From Booking Passage300Poems: From In My Life, On My Life; Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Why Jerusalem?; and The Jewish Time Bomb323Hovering at a Low Altitude326Making Judaism Cool331Old Man339Poems: When You Come to Sleep with Me, Come Like My Father and Hebrew342Esther and Yochanan346The Twenty-seventh Man352Against Logic367The Healing Power of Jewish Stories371The Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer375Bellow at 85, Roth at 67392Jewish Writing and the Spiritual Journey: A Speculative Journey409The One Hundred Best Contemporary Jewish Books417The Editor423The Contributors425Credits431
