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Best Jewish Writing 2003

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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.