The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization: 1973-2005

Deborah Dash Moore, Nurith Gertz

Yale University Press, Nov 20, 2012 - Social Science - 1232 pages

A treasury of Jewish creative works from around the world, this volume of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization introduces readers to the great diversity of Jewish civilization, covering the momentous period from 1973 to 2005. The full sweep of Jewish culture—high and low, famous and obscure, religious and secular—is gathered here, with hundreds of examples from literature, visual arts, and popular culture, as well as intellectual and spiritual works.

Readers will discover how contemporary Jewish culture was affected by the feminist movement, Israeli politics after the Yom Kippur War, Russian Jewish emigration, the rise of identity politics in the United States, South American revolutions and dictatorships, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and much more. This groundbreaking anthology offers a vivid encounter with the myriad expressions of Jewish creativity, reflecting the exuberance, diversity, and vitality of modern Jewish life.

Contents

• Advisory Boards: xxiii
• The World at Cynthia Ozick Notes toward Finding the Right: xxviii
• How to Read This Book: xxxii
• Michail GrobmanJacobs Ladder 523: xxxiii
• Jewish History and Jewish Religious Education in Secular: xxxiv
• 1982: xxxviii
• Glenn Sujo The Voyage I Departure and: xl
• Order: xlii
• David Tartakover Who Will Praise Israels Bravery 536: xlix
• and Reminiscences 621: li
• 1983: liii
• The Transformation ofContemporary: lv
• Jonathan Borofsky Hitler Dream 537: lxi
• György Konrád Eternally Waiting 812 Shmuel Trigano The Notion ofa Jewish: lxii
• Saul Wachs Talking to Little Children about Max Kozloff Jewish Sensibility and the Photography: lxiii
• LITERATURE: 1
• Ordinary Germans and: 2
• Adele Wiseman Crackpot: 8
• 1976: 15
• 1978: 25
• 1980: 32
• Moacyr Scliar The Centaur in: 38
• Admiel Kosman A New Exegesis with Gods: 43
• Serge Liberman On Firmer Shores: 44
• Bernard Malamud Gods Grace: 51
• Mark Helprin Winters Tale: 53
• Alcina Lubitch Domecq Bottles: 60
• 1985: 67
• Faye Kellerman The RitualBath: 74
• Philip Roth The Counterlife: 80
• 1988: 86
• Tony Eprile Letters from Doreen: 93
• Imre Kertész Kaddishfor a Child NotBorn: 99
• Chava Rosenfarb The Greenhorn: 105
• Norma Rosen The Lovemaking ofI: 162
• Gábor Deutsch Minus Money: 168
• Marcel Möring In Babylon: 175
• Mordecai Richler Barneys Version: 181
• David Albahari Götz and Meyer: 188
• Lilian Nattel The River Midnight: 195
• Reina Roffé Exotic Birds: 201
• Arnon Grunberg Phantom Pain: 208
• Jeremy Gavron The Book ofIsrael: 215
• David Shneyer Avinu Malkeynu 1093 List ofMusical Selections 1105: 217
• Poetry: 246
• David A Harris and Ruth Messinger A Call to Melvin Teitelbaum Keep Halacha Out ofthe Courts 1009: 249
• Dannie Abse Uncle Isidore: 252
• Ottó Orbán Europe: 253
• 1982: 259
• Ilan Sheinfeld The Eve ofWar 18: 265
• Robert Pinsky Shirt: 271
• Elaine Durbach Coming ofAge in Southern: 293
• SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS CULTURE 1985: 299
• Commentary 1986: 305
• 1987: 320
• David M Feldman This Matter: 323
• Resistance: 326
• My Grandfathers Story: 332
• In Search of Childrens Literature: 337
• Tomorrow 1077: 345
• Calvin Trillin Messagesfrom My Father 338 Miryam RotA Tale ofFive Balloons: 365
• Yehuda Atlas Its Me: 371
• 1978: 375
• Mauricio Rosencof The Letters ThatNever: 379
• A Memoir of Galila RonFeder Gingi or a Private Tent: 385
• Michael Gitlin Displaced 541: 387
• A Dorit Orgad TheAdarahs Vow: 391
• New Jewish Index ofAuthors 1155: 402
• 1982: 420
• 1987: 421
• of War: 426
• Anita Heyman Exitfrom Home 415 Yehoshua Sobol and Itzik Weingarten Kriza: 433
• Sami Michael Love among the Palms 417: 439
• Gabriella Lev and Aliza ElionIsraeli The Story: 442
• Dani Karavan Kikar Levana White Square 553: 445
• 1984: 448
• Barbara LebowA Shayna Maidel: 455
• Neil Simon Biloxi Blues: 461
• Shmuel HasfariA Trumpet in the Wadi: 467
• 1992: 476
• Gabriel Bensimhon 1948: 482
• Hanoch Levin Murder: 490
• 1999: 496

About the author

Deborah Dash Moore is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan. She lives in Ann Arbor, MI. Nurith Gertz is Professor Emerita of Hebrew Literature and Film, The Open University of Israel, and head of the Department of Culture Creation and Production, Sapir College. She lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. James E. Young, editor in chief of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, is professor of English and Judaic studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization: 1973-2005; Volume 10 of Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civ.; Volume 10 of Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
• Editors: Deborah Dash Moore, Nurith Gertz
• Contributor: James E. Young
• Edition: unabridged
• Publisher: Yale University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 030013553X, 9780300135534
• Length: 1232 pages
• Subjects: History / Jewish; Social Science / Jewish Studies