Best Jewish Writing 2003

By: Kurzweil, Arthur

Best Jewish Writing 2003 Contributors include: Leo M. Abrami Joseph Alpher Benjamin Blech Norman Berdichevsky Susan Berrin Lawrence Bush Talia Carner I. Century Phyllis Chesler Leslie Cohen Ralph de Toledano Enid Dame Alan M. Dershowitz Carol Diament Amos Elon Lawrence J. Epstein Mordechai Gafni Herbert Gold Shefa Gold Gloria Goldreich David Grossman Blu Greenberg Irving Greenberg Leo Haber David A. Harris Arthur Hertzberg Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin Paula E. Hyman Yoel Jakobovits Rodger Kamenetz Edward I. Koch Jane Leavy Amy-Jill Levine Andrei S. Markovits Bezalel Noor Cynthia Ozick Marge Piercy Todd Pitock Daniel Polish Daniel Asa Rose Alvin H. Rosenfeld Gilbert S. Rosenthal David Saks Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Peninnah Schram Eliezer Shore Lewis D. Solomon Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz William C. Speed Andrew Wallenstein Arthur Waskow Avi Weiss Sheila Weinberg Margaret Moers Wenig Elie Wiesel Valerie Wohlfeld The Editor Arthur Kurzweil is the former director of the Jewish Book Club and editor-in-chief of Jason Aronson Publishers. He is the author of From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History (Wiley, 2004).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787967718
• ISBN13: 9780787967710
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

A truly outstanding anthology

This is an outstanding anthology containing a selection of the best Jewish writing of 2003. It is far superior to the previous collections both in the quality of the writers selected, and in the balance between various political and religious points- of-view within the Jewish world.It has been compiled by Arthur Kurzweil a person who more than any other in the past few decades has contribute to the creation of new and important English language Judaica. His selections here include a remarkable essay by Cynthia Ozick on the intellectual career of super- scholar Gershom Scholem, a remarkable family memoir by Asa Rose, and a persuasive piece defending Israel by Alan Dershowitz. There are morever a wide selection of writings in the categories, politics, fiction, poetry, spiritual writing, religious education, Holocaust, current issues, Israel, Anti- Semitism and Jewish humor. There is a lot of very good writing here, and this work will give its readers great pleasure and instruction. It could not be more highly recommended.