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Burning Psalms - Confronting Adonai After Auschwitz

by Menachem Rosensaft

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 "In these pages, responding to all 150 Psalms individually, the author balances his mastery of Jewish theology with a raw writing style that is unafraid to question, lash out at, and lament God’s seeming passivity in the face of evil. . . . As the son of Holocaust survivors who was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany shortly after the war, Rosensaft writes from a place of deep-seated pain and generational trauma. . . . A haunting reimagining of the Book of Psalms." — Kirkus Reviews It’s amazing that Menachem Z. Rosensaft’s "Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz" doesn’t burst into flames. This book of poetry — every poem in it a response or counterpoint to every one of the psalms in the biblical book — written by the son of Holocaust survivors and the brother of a murdered sibling he never knew, is composed with fire, fueled by a combination of rage, love, and despite-it-all faith that sears your eyes as you read it. —New Jersey Jewish Standard Advance Praise for Burning Psalms "Like the Book of Psalms of the Bible, Menachem Rosensaft’s psalms speak for our souls. With a gift for expressing even the most hidden thoughts and feelings, his psalms give voice to the horrors and trauma that haunt children of Holocaust victims and survivors. Burning Psalms is one of the most powerful Jewish expressions of our day." —Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College "Menachem Rosensaft’s evocative, heartfelt work is among of the most informed and gut-wrenching attempts to understand belief and comfort in the Divine in the shadow of the Holocaust." —Robert J. Williams, Finci-Viterbi Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation; UNESCO Chair on Antisemitism and Holocaust Research "In this extraordinary volume, Menachem Rosensaft - poet, advocate for humanity and child of Holocaust survivors - has recast the sacred poetry of the past into a vade mecum for those presently seeking meaning in the extended shadow of the Shoah. Faithful both to the text and the burning questions that sit on our broken hearts, Rosensaft has elegantly and audaciously provided his readers a pathway to pursue justice, find comfort and continue to seek beauty in this world." —Rabbi Elliot J. Cosgrove, Senior Rabbi, Park Avenue Synagogue; editor, For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today About the Author Born in 1948 in the Displaced Persons camp of Bergen-Belsen in Germany, the son of two survivors of the Nazi death and concentration camps of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, Menachem Z. Rosensaft is adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School, lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School, general counsel emeritus of the World Jewish Congress, and a past president of Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. He is the author of Poems Born in Bergen-Belsen (Kelsay Books, 2021) and editor of God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2015) and Life Reborn, Jewish Displaced Persons 1945-1951 (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2001). In July 2023, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina for his "contribution to raising awareness of the genocide against Bosnians in Srebrenica and the Holocaust, through the fight against the denial of crimes and the falsification of historical facts, and for contributing to peace building and the development of a culture of remembrance."
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Not Akhmatova - Poems And Adaptations

by Noah Berlatsky

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 Anna, the border washed your tongue from our tongue. Anna, the border is a voice that said our name. "Not Akhmatova" by Noah Berlatsky navigates the intricate dance between homage and reinvention, drawing inspiration from the works of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. A book of quasi translations, appropriations, and alienations, it is also an authentic and unique examination of rootlessness and the need to belong. Berlatsky’s argumentative and proud poems explore his own relationship with Russia as well as the concept of Jewish diaspora identity.
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Shaken To My Bones - A Poetic Midrash On The Torah

by Brian Rohr

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 Cry those tears, heal the future generations who must battle that old wound over and over, again With Shaken to My Bones, Brian Rohr has crafted an astonishing set of parsha poems, a multilayered midrash, questioning the text, challenging God, while still embracing love and the earth. As a maggid, a storyteller in the finest sense of the Jewish tradition, he weaves together elements of Torah into a new tapestry, creating a personal, ancient yet contemporary and magical work. Advance Praise "If you think you have read enough poetry books inspired by the weekly parsha, you might have to think again—but only after reading this one. Turn it and turn it again! In Brian Rohr’s exquisite poems, wonders unfold: a star traverses the sky before there is a sky or even stars at all, and a covenant is taken from the sky and made into a knife for circumcision. Crisp lines like ‘It is solstice and warmth is a distant memory, like fresh plums picked from the neighbor’s tree’ augment the wonder of the book. The author, also, never leaves behind a reader. Instead, Rohr manages to weave readers into poems of biblical reflection, by telling us, for instance, of ‘Twelve sons, each with a complicated past like your own complicated past’ and calling for the cities of refuge from the Torah, but for the persecuted of our times. So, yes, we are taken along on a journey both ancient and immediate — one that is rewarding beyond comparison." —Baruch November, author of Bar Mitzvah Dreams "Like all good poetry, Brian Rohr’s book stirs more questions than it gives answers. And like all Torah, it seeds more questions than it sprouts answers. Munch on the harvest!" —Rabbi Arthur Waskow, founder/director of The Shalom Center and author of many books including the Freedom Seder, Seasons of Our Joy, Dancing in God’s Earthquake, Tales of Tikkun, and Down-to-Earth Judaism "Brian Rohr’s Shaken To My Bones honors the biblical ancestors by engaging in the dance of interpretation. The poet explores the books of the Torah with a clear sense of the pathos of the patriarchs of Genesis and their descendants, sensitively giving voice to dilemmas, wonders, and sorrows. For Rohr, the entry into sacred text is a process of widening the self, like ‘surrendering to some great river, whose destination is unknown.’ And yet, there is also a sense of the poignant gulf between a contemporary life and these culture-shaping myths; as the poet writes: ‘How am I to understand the instructions they left me when so much has happened and so much has changed?’ It might be that Shaken To My Bones will inspire the reader to engage in some midrash-making of their own." —Rabbi Jill Hammer, author of Sisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women, The Jewish Book of Days, and The Hebrew Priestess
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Bits And Pieces - A Roaming

by Pomerantz Edward

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 "Bits and pieces / scraps / what’s left on the barber shop floor / after a haircut / before the barber sweeps up" In this unsentimental poetic memoir, award-winning screenwriter Edward Pomerantz captures significant moments of his life exactly between "before" and "after." With the precise eye of a filmmaker, the soul of a playwright, he knows exactly how many frames to cut in order to evoke poignant images that are sharp and tender.
The Five Books Of Limericks - A Chapter-By-Chapter Retelling Of The Torah

by Rhonda Rosenheck

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Other Covenants - Alternate Histories Of The Jewish People

by Andrea D Lobel e Mark Shainblum

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Accidental Sisters - The Story Of My 52-Year Wait To Meet My Biological Sibling

by Katherine Linn Caire

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Shipshape

by Dowd E. E. Dowd

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A Map Of The Dark

by John Dixon

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Folk Photography

by Lucy Sante

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Ultrazone - A Tangier Ghost Story

by Francis Poole e Mark Terrill

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Everything Thaws - A Poetic Cycle

by R B Lemberg

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The Missing Jew - Poems 1976-2022

by Rodger Kamenetz

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The Essential Writings Of Abraham Isaac Kook

by Kook Abraham Isaac Kook

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The Red Door - A Dark Fairy Tale Told In Poems

by Harris Shawn C Harris

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There Is No Place Without You - Poems

by Bernstein Maya Bernstein

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Daily Blessings - Poems On Tractate Berakhot

by Broder Hillel Broder

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The Shortest Skirt In Shul - Poems

by Sass Orol

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An Added Soul - Poems For A New Old Religion (Bilingual English/Hebrew Edition)

by Herbert J Levine

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There Are No Rivers

by Phyllis Baker

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It'S Hard To Be A Filipino In Hebrew

by Lavie Tidhar; Illustration: Adi Elkin

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Expecting Jewish! - A Millennial Mom'S Practical Guide To How Judaism Can Be A Blessing To New Moms And Moms-To-Be

by Marion Haberman

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Are We There Yet - Travel As A Spiritual Path

by Shefa Gold

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The Lost Children Of Tarshish - Book One

by Ehud Tokatly, Judy Klitsner e Shmuel Klitsner

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