A SPECIAL ISSUE FOR THE FALL AND WINTER OF 2002/3

JEWISH IN AMERICA

EDITED BY SARA BLAIR AND JONATHAN FREEDMAN

Two volumes (Fall 2002 and Winter 2003)

WINTER 2003 ISSUE

• Drashes, or short essays, on aspects of Jewish experience:
  1. Alix Kates Shulman on confronting anti-Semitism in her beach community in New England.
  2. Nicholas Delbanco's memoir of school days and Jewish initiative.
  3. Richard Kostelanetz on the neglect of Sephardic authors and artists.
  4. Tamar Barzel on the popularity of klezmer in America.
  5. Ilana Blumberg on growing up orthodox, intellectual, and conflicted about matters like wearing one's own hair.

• Jonathan Freedman writes about the conflict of voices and ideas in Jewish-American history and culture.

• Alicia Ostriker measures the distance in two film adaptations from Exodus: The Ten Commandments and The Prince of Egypt.

• Sharona Muir presents an exchange of letters and commentary to describe how her Israeli father came to America in the 1950s and made (or didn't make) significant adjustments in understanding and attitude.

• Julian Levinson considers how American academic culture responded to, and influenced, the intellectual currents of Jewish life.

• Shira Wolosky takes up the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the point of view of one who has taken up residence in Israel after living and teaching in America.

• Sara Blair chronicles the history of photography by Jews in America, focusing on some dozen careers and artworks that exemplify a Jewish inflection. A color portfolio of works follows, as well as a brief commentary by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson about her selection of images from an exhibition featuring depictions of Hanukkah.

• New poems by Judith Baumel, Chana Bloch, Rick Hilles, A. M. Juster, Rodger Kamenetz, and David Lehman.

• New short stories by Misha Angrist, Eliot Krieger, Nancy Reisman.