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“Make Yourself a Teacher”: Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples (Seattle: University of Washington Press,2011) 151 pp. **Finalist, National Jewish Book Award, 2012
Fragments of Redemption: Jewish Thought and Literary Theory in Benjamin, Scholem, and Levinas (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991), 389 pp. **Japanese translation. Tokyo: Hohsei University Press, 2005
Slayers of Moses: The Emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation in Modern Literary Theory (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982), 267 pp. ***Translated into Japanese by K. Yamagata (Tokyo: Hohsei University Press, 1987). Winner of 24th Translation Culture Prize of Japan, 1988. Forthcoming translation into Chinese from the Center of Judaic and Chinese Studies, Sichuan International Studies University in the translation series “Modern Western Thoughts and Jewish Cultural Tradition” in conjunction with the Sichuan Literature & Art Publishing House
“Torah of the Mothers”: Contemporary Jewish Women Read Classical Jewish Texts ( Jerusalem: Urim Press, 2000) 503 pp., Co- Editor with Ora Wiskind-Elper
Wisdom From All My Teachers: Challenges and Initiatives in Contemporary Torah Education (Jerusalem:Urim Press 2003) 395 pp., Co-Editor with Jeffrey Saks
Psychiatry and the Humanities, Volume 11, Psychoanalysis and Religion (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), Associate Editor with Joseph Smith
Fragments of Redemption: Jewish Thought and Literary Theory in Benjamin, Scholem, and Levinas (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991), 389 pp. **Japanese translation. Tokyo: Hohsei University Press, 2005
Slayers of Moses: The Emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation in Modern Literary Theory (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982), 267 pp. ***Translated into Japanese by K. Yamagata (Tokyo: Hohsei University Press, 1987). Winner of 24th Translation Culture Prize of Japan, 1988. Forthcoming translation into Chinese from the Center of Judaic and Chinese Studies, Sichuan International Studies University in the translation series “Modern Western Thoughts and Jewish Cultural Tradition” in conjunction with the Sichuan Literature & Art Publishing House
“Torah of the Mothers”: Contemporary Jewish Women Read Classical Jewish Texts ( Jerusalem: Urim Press, 2000) 503 pp., Co- Editor with Ora Wiskind-Elper
Wisdom From All My Teachers: Challenges and Initiatives in Contemporary Torah Education (Jerusalem:Urim Press 2003) 395 pp., Co-Editor with Jeffrey Saks
Psychiatry and the Humanities, Volume 11, Psychoanalysis and Religion (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), Associate Editor with Joseph Smith
Articles
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"God's Comics: The Hebrew Alphabet as Graphic Narrative" in Comics and Sacred Texts: Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives. Edited by Assaf Gamzou and Ken Koltun-Fromm, University Press of Mississippi, 2018. pp. 25-42.
Review of The Limits of Critique by Rita Felski. Common Knowledge 23: 3, 2017. pp. 537-538.
"Judaism" in The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Religion. Edited by Susan M. Felch, Cambridge University Press, 2016. pp. 186-201.
"Don't Forget the Potatoes": Imagining God Through Food in Imagining the Jewish God. Edited by Leonard Kaplan and Ken Koltun-Fromm, Lexington Books, 2016. 9p. 347-38.
Review of Western Art and Jewish Presence in the Work of Paul Celan by Esther Cameron. B'Or HaTorah: Journal of Science, Life and Art. 2015. 174-181.
"Why I Don't Teach 'The Bible as Literature' Anymore" in the Rethinking the Bible as Literature: A Pedagogical Forum. Religion and Literature. Spring, 2015, Vol. 47 Num. 1, pp. 229-235.
“Is Midrash Comics?” : A Fish Story About Graphic Narrative, Visual Rhetoric and Rabbinic Hermeneutics" in Jewish Rhetorics, ed Janice Fernheimer and Michael Berndard-Donalds , Brandeis University Press, 2014. MSS 25 pp.
“The Philosopher, The Rabbi, and the Rhetorician.” Special issue of College English on “Jewish Rhetoric,” 72.6 ( 2010): 590-607
"Narrative or Truth: A Response to Francis Nataf." Jewish Educational Leadership, 7: 1 (2008): 49-53.
“‘Go Down Moses’: Teaching in the New M.A. in Gender Studies Program at Bar Ilan University.” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, Fall, 2002 (5): 213-230.
“‘Knowledge Has a Face’: The Jewish, the Personal, and the Pedagogical.” Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing Eds. David Bleich and Deborah Holdstein (Utah State University Press, 2001): 121-144.
“‘Stopping the Heart’: The Spiritual Search of Students and the Challenge to a Professor in an Undergraduate Literature Class” in Religion, Scholarship and Higher Education: Perspectives, Models and Future Prospects. Ed. Andrea Sterk (Notre Dame University Press, 2001): 202-230
“Emunah: The Craft of Faith." The Academy and the Possibility of Belief, ed. M.L. BuleyMeissner (New York: Hampton Press, 2000) :85-104
“Crossing the Void: A Meditation on Postmodern Jewish Theological Renewal.” Reviewing the Covenant:Eugene Borowitz and the Postmodern Renewal of Jewish Theology, Ed. Peter Ochs. (NY: State University of New York Press,2000):173-200
“‘We Cleverly Avoided Talking About God’: Personal and Pedagogical Reflections on Academia and Spirituality.” Courtyard:A Journal of Research and Thought in Jewish Education, Jewish Theological Seminary 1:1 (1999): 101-120.
“Dear Class.” Essays in Quality Learning:Teachers’ Reflections on Classroom Practice. Ed. Steven Selden (University of Maryland, IBM Total Quality Learning Project, 1998): 17-32
“Women and the Study of the Torah in the Thought of the Lubavitcher Rebbe: A Halakhic Analysis.” Jewish Legal Writings By Women. Eds. Micah Halperin and Channah Safrai (Jerusalem:Urim Press, 1998): 142-177.
“Crossing the Void: A Postmodern Jewish Theology.” Creating the Jewish Future. Eds. Bernard Lightman and Michael Brown (Alta Mira Press/Sage Publishers, 1998): 45-59.
"`Find(ing) Yourself a Teacher': Opening the Discussion on Pedagogy at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference.” Association for Jewish Studies Newsletter, Spring 1995, (45): 89.
"A Man Apart: The Legacy of The Lubavitcher Rebbe." Crosscurrents: Religion and Intellectual Life (Summer 1995): 234-240
"The Torah of Criticism and the Criticism of Torah: Recuperating the Pedagogical Moment." Journal of Religion, 74:3 (1994): 356-371. Reprinted in Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age, ed. Steven Kepnes (New York: New York Univ. Press, 1996): 221-242.
"Emunah: The Craft of Faith." Crosscurrents: Religion and Intellectual Life 42:3 (1992): 293-313.
"Walter Benjamin and the Angel of History." Crosscurrents: Religion and Intellectual Life 41:3 (1992): 344-352.
"Facing the Other: Levinas, Perelman, and Rosenzweig." Religion and Literature 22: 23 (1990): 61-84. Reprinted in Summoning: The Idea of the Covenant and Literary Theory, ed. Ellen Spolsky (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993). Reprinted in Divine Aporia: Postmodern Conversations about the Other ed. John C. Hawley (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2000): 263-287; reprinted in Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, ed Claire Katz (Routledge, 2005).
"Ending the Cold War: Literary Theory and the Bibliography and Methods Course." Literary Research, 12 (1989): 115-133.
"Parodic Play and Prophetic Reason: Two Interpretations of Interpretation." Poetics Today 9:2 (1988): 396423. Reprinted in The Rhetoric of Interpretation and the Interpretation of Rhetoric, ed. Paul Hernadi (Durham: Duke University Press, 1989): 143-171.
"The State of Contemporary Literary Criticism and Jewish Studies." Association for Jewish Studies Newsletter, No. 37 (1988): 36.
"`Torments of an Ancient Word': Edmond Jabès and the Rabbinic Tradition," in The Sin of the Book: Essays on the Writing of Edmond Jabès, ed. Eric Gould (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985), 55-91.
"`Everything is in It': Rabbinic Interpretation and Modern Literary Criticism." Judaism 35 (1986): 429-440.
"Jacques Derrida and the Heretic Hermeneutic," in Displacement: New Essays in Poststructuralist Criticism, ed. Mark Krupnick (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983), pp. 98-132.
"The Family As Mirroring Theological Commitment." Education for Inter-dependence in the Jewish Family, Part I. (Jerusalem: Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, 1982).
"Fragments of the Rock: Modern Literary Theory and the Study of Midrash." Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary Study 5 (l985): 75-95.
"Interpretation as Devotion: Freud's Relation to Rabbinic Hermeneutics." Psychoanalytic Review 68 (1981): 201-218.
"Greek Philosophy and the Overcoming of the Word." Works and Days 1 (1980): 45-69.
"Intimate Distance: The Boundary of Life and Art in 'To the Lighthouse'.'" International Review of Psychoanalysis 7 (1980): 41-49.
"Timon of Athens: The Rage of Disillusion." American Imago 36 (1979): 45-68. Reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism, Vol. 1, ed. L. Harris (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1984), 529-531. Reprinted in Signet Edition of Timon of Athens, ed. Maurice Charney (1990) Reprinted in Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens, ed Sylvan Barnet, Signet Classic Shapeseare ( 2005).
"Freud's Midrash: The Exile of Interpretation." New York Literary Forum 2 (1978): 99-112.
Review of The Limits of Critique by Rita Felski. Common Knowledge 23: 3, 2017. pp. 537-538.
"Judaism" in The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Religion. Edited by Susan M. Felch, Cambridge University Press, 2016. pp. 186-201.
"Don't Forget the Potatoes": Imagining God Through Food in Imagining the Jewish God. Edited by Leonard Kaplan and Ken Koltun-Fromm, Lexington Books, 2016. 9p. 347-38.
Review of Western Art and Jewish Presence in the Work of Paul Celan by Esther Cameron. B'Or HaTorah: Journal of Science, Life and Art. 2015. 174-181.
"Why I Don't Teach 'The Bible as Literature' Anymore" in the Rethinking the Bible as Literature: A Pedagogical Forum. Religion and Literature. Spring, 2015, Vol. 47 Num. 1, pp. 229-235.
“Is Midrash Comics?” : A Fish Story About Graphic Narrative, Visual Rhetoric and Rabbinic Hermeneutics" in Jewish Rhetorics, ed Janice Fernheimer and Michael Berndard-Donalds , Brandeis University Press, 2014. MSS 25 pp.
“The Philosopher, The Rabbi, and the Rhetorician.” Special issue of College English on “Jewish Rhetoric,” 72.6 ( 2010): 590-607
"Narrative or Truth: A Response to Francis Nataf." Jewish Educational Leadership, 7: 1 (2008): 49-53.
“‘Go Down Moses’: Teaching in the New M.A. in Gender Studies Program at Bar Ilan University.” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, Fall, 2002 (5): 213-230.
“‘Knowledge Has a Face’: The Jewish, the Personal, and the Pedagogical.” Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing Eds. David Bleich and Deborah Holdstein (Utah State University Press, 2001): 121-144.
“‘Stopping the Heart’: The Spiritual Search of Students and the Challenge to a Professor in an Undergraduate Literature Class” in Religion, Scholarship and Higher Education: Perspectives, Models and Future Prospects. Ed. Andrea Sterk (Notre Dame University Press, 2001): 202-230
“Emunah: The Craft of Faith." The Academy and the Possibility of Belief, ed. M.L. BuleyMeissner (New York: Hampton Press, 2000) :85-104
“Crossing the Void: A Meditation on Postmodern Jewish Theological Renewal.” Reviewing the Covenant:Eugene Borowitz and the Postmodern Renewal of Jewish Theology, Ed. Peter Ochs. (NY: State University of New York Press,2000):173-200
“‘We Cleverly Avoided Talking About God’: Personal and Pedagogical Reflections on Academia and Spirituality.” Courtyard:A Journal of Research and Thought in Jewish Education, Jewish Theological Seminary 1:1 (1999): 101-120.
“Dear Class.” Essays in Quality Learning:Teachers’ Reflections on Classroom Practice. Ed. Steven Selden (University of Maryland, IBM Total Quality Learning Project, 1998): 17-32
“Women and the Study of the Torah in the Thought of the Lubavitcher Rebbe: A Halakhic Analysis.” Jewish Legal Writings By Women. Eds. Micah Halperin and Channah Safrai (Jerusalem:Urim Press, 1998): 142-177.
“Crossing the Void: A Postmodern Jewish Theology.” Creating the Jewish Future. Eds. Bernard Lightman and Michael Brown (Alta Mira Press/Sage Publishers, 1998): 45-59.
"`Find(ing) Yourself a Teacher': Opening the Discussion on Pedagogy at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference.” Association for Jewish Studies Newsletter, Spring 1995, (45): 89.
"A Man Apart: The Legacy of The Lubavitcher Rebbe." Crosscurrents: Religion and Intellectual Life (Summer 1995): 234-240
"The Torah of Criticism and the Criticism of Torah: Recuperating the Pedagogical Moment." Journal of Religion, 74:3 (1994): 356-371. Reprinted in Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age, ed. Steven Kepnes (New York: New York Univ. Press, 1996): 221-242.
"Emunah: The Craft of Faith." Crosscurrents: Religion and Intellectual Life 42:3 (1992): 293-313.
"Walter Benjamin and the Angel of History." Crosscurrents: Religion and Intellectual Life 41:3 (1992): 344-352.
"Facing the Other: Levinas, Perelman, and Rosenzweig." Religion and Literature 22: 23 (1990): 61-84. Reprinted in Summoning: The Idea of the Covenant and Literary Theory, ed. Ellen Spolsky (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993). Reprinted in Divine Aporia: Postmodern Conversations about the Other ed. John C. Hawley (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2000): 263-287; reprinted in Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, ed Claire Katz (Routledge, 2005).
"Ending the Cold War: Literary Theory and the Bibliography and Methods Course." Literary Research, 12 (1989): 115-133.
"Parodic Play and Prophetic Reason: Two Interpretations of Interpretation." Poetics Today 9:2 (1988): 396423. Reprinted in The Rhetoric of Interpretation and the Interpretation of Rhetoric, ed. Paul Hernadi (Durham: Duke University Press, 1989): 143-171.
"The State of Contemporary Literary Criticism and Jewish Studies." Association for Jewish Studies Newsletter, No. 37 (1988): 36.
"`Torments of an Ancient Word': Edmond Jabès and the Rabbinic Tradition," in The Sin of the Book: Essays on the Writing of Edmond Jabès, ed. Eric Gould (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985), 55-91.
"`Everything is in It': Rabbinic Interpretation and Modern Literary Criticism." Judaism 35 (1986): 429-440.
"Jacques Derrida and the Heretic Hermeneutic," in Displacement: New Essays in Poststructuralist Criticism, ed. Mark Krupnick (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983), pp. 98-132.
"The Family As Mirroring Theological Commitment." Education for Inter-dependence in the Jewish Family, Part I. (Jerusalem: Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, 1982).
"Fragments of the Rock: Modern Literary Theory and the Study of Midrash." Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary Study 5 (l985): 75-95.
"Interpretation as Devotion: Freud's Relation to Rabbinic Hermeneutics." Psychoanalytic Review 68 (1981): 201-218.
"Greek Philosophy and the Overcoming of the Word." Works and Days 1 (1980): 45-69.
"Intimate Distance: The Boundary of Life and Art in 'To the Lighthouse'.'" International Review of Psychoanalysis 7 (1980): 41-49.
"Timon of Athens: The Rage of Disillusion." American Imago 36 (1979): 45-68. Reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism, Vol. 1, ed. L. Harris (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1984), 529-531. Reprinted in Signet Edition of Timon of Athens, ed. Maurice Charney (1990) Reprinted in Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens, ed Sylvan Barnet, Signet Classic Shapeseare ( 2005).
"Freud's Midrash: The Exile of Interpretation." New York Literary Forum 2 (1978): 99-112.
Other
"Leket Israel and Parshat Pinhas: Hungry for Love?" The Leket Israel Parshat HaShavua Project. 12 July 2014. Web.
"The Lubavitcher Rebbe Died 20 Years Ago Today. Who Was He?" Tablet Magazine. Nextbook Inc. 1 July 2014. Web.
"Putting Women in the Picture: The Rebbe's Views on Women Today." Chabad.org. 2004. Web.
Various (25) popular articles in the Melton Journal for Jewish Research; Jewish Action; Journal of Jewish Communal Service; Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility; The Jewish Observer; The Jewish Home; Wellsprings.
Various articles on chabad.org
"The Lubavitcher Rebbe Died 20 Years Ago Today. Who Was He?" Tablet Magazine. Nextbook Inc. 1 July 2014. Web.
"Putting Women in the Picture: The Rebbe's Views on Women Today." Chabad.org. 2004. Web.
Various (25) popular articles in the Melton Journal for Jewish Research; Jewish Action; Journal of Jewish Communal Service; Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility; The Jewish Observer; The Jewish Home; Wellsprings.
Various articles on chabad.org