Jewish Writings So Far

Dedicated to Susannah,
Lovely Susannah

What a surprise it was for me to recognize that I’d been writing about Jewish subjects or out of the Jewish tradition for more than four decades. Since there was enough material to make a printed book, Jewish Writings So Far seemed an appropriate addition to my website, particularly in collecting materials unavailable elsewhere. Preceding some of the texts, I added between brackets [] some recent memoir and perhaps guidance.

—Richard Kostelanetz, New York, NY 14 May 2006

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

“Militant Minorities,” Hudson Review, XVIII (Autumn, 1965), plus “A Communication,” XVIII (Winter 1966-67).

"Gershom Scholem: The Mystics' Medium," Present Tense, IV/3 (Spring 1977).

The Radical Gertrude Stein," Midstream, XXXXII/5 (June/July 1996).

“Amos Oz,” Present Tense , VII/2 (Winter 1980)

"Irvin Faust" & "Gertrude Stein," in Joel Shatzky & Michael Taub, eds., Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996).

“Stefan Heym—He Shouldn’t Have Been a Communist,” Midstream, XXXXXVII /4 (May/June 2002).

"Composing Kaddish," Long Shot , XVIII (1995).

“Seven Jewish Short Fictions,” Marymark Press, 2006.

“Lorenzo da Ponte,” Forward (January 17, 2003)

“Is There a Jewish Style of Sport?” Forward (September 25, 1992)

"The Great Jewish Cemetery of Berlin," New York Times, Sunday Travel Section (8 November 1987.

“Sephardic Culture and Me,” Michigan Quarterly Review, XLII/1 (Winter 2003).

“Disinterring Jewish Socialism,” Liberty, (2004)