About this book
Scholars, theologians, writers, and poets respond to plagues, contemporary, historical, and fictional, in these three original volumes from Ben Yehuda Press. Torah in a Time of Plague won the National Jewish Book Award for best 2021 book on Modern Jewish Thought and Experience. Strange Fire presents a art, poetry, essays, and short stories that explore our more-or-less heretical relationship to Judaism in times of crisis. Jews vs Zombies brings together stories from the light-hearted to the profound. Buy them together and save 25%.
Torah in a Time of Plague - Contents
Introduction
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Theological Vertigo in Proximity to Plague Erin Leib Smokler
The Theology of Plague
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Covid-19 and the Theological Challenge of the Arbitrary Shaul Magid
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Theodicy and the Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune Gordon Tucker
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Loving God Through Life and Death: An Embodied Theology of Loss Aviva Richman
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The Natural Disaster Theology Dilemma David Zvi Kalman
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Between Immanence and Transcendence: Jewish Ideas of God and Suffering Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi
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The Biblical Plagues and Our Plague: An Anthropocentric Theology Chaim Seidler-Feller
- Love in a Time of Absence: Rashi on Song of Songs and Isolation Devorah Schoenfeld
- Keter and Corona: Perspectives from the Jewish Mystical Tradition Art Green
Jewish Community and Practice Under Duress
- Collective Tragedies and the Politics of Mourning Sara Labaton
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“A People’s Multitude is a King’s Splendor:” Communal Practices Beyond Prayer Ayelet Hoffmann Libson
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Collectivism and Individualism in the Time of Plague Jon A. Levisohn
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Pandemic and the Jewish Household Deena Aranoff
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Standing Together: Covid-19, Community and Solidarity Ariel Evan Mayse
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Building an Ark in the Midst of a Flood: Mindfulness Practices for Staying Afloat James Jacobson-Maisels
History and Literature of Plague
- Praying Away the Plague: Jewish Prayer During the Italian Plague, 1630-31 Yitz Landes
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Torah in Troubled Times: Experiencing Epidemic in Prague, 1713 Josh Teplitsky
Quarantine Reflections
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The Song of Sirens: A Covid Birth Story Tamara Tweel
- (Tractate) Shabbat in Quarantine Ethan J. Leib
- Beezus and Corona: Reading our Way through the Wilderness Ilana Kurshan
Time in Unprecedented Times
- Receiving the Finite Gift of Life Itself Zohar Atkins
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Aging in Place: A Spiritual Fact of Life Michael Fishbane
Strange Fire - Contents
Introduction, T.S. Mendola
You Three, Jacques Lezra
Anger
- Beautifully Angry, Dainy Bernstein
- Prophecies Against the Vernacular, S.J. Pearce
- Thanking Our Stars, Caitlin Wolper
- Children of Europe, Lorraine Schein
- Thoughts on Judaism and Magic by a Child of Holocaust Survivors, Lorraine Schein
- Survivors, Lorraine Schein
- Feeling Angry, Annie Goldberg
- Avodah Zarah, Hadassah Schneider
Death
- Everything Old is New Again, Meghan Sterling
- The Other Talmud, Yelena Crane
- Gravewalkers, Annabel Cohen
- A Meditation on How, Caitlin Wolper
- In His Name, Marlaina Cockroft
- In the Time of Dying, Andrew Elias Ramer
- Second Diagnosis, Caitlin Wolper
Sex
- Advice For When You Are Pursued By Snakes, Shana Ross
- Theory of Night, Shana Ross
- In God’s Image, Caitlin Wolper
- Love Thy Neighbor, Rivqa Rafael
- Shabbos Girlfriend, Meep Matsumisha
- The Whore’s Covenant, RG
- I just wanted to pin “LOVE” in my ears, Caitlin Wolper
Faith
- Malachai Hasharet, Katherine Hagopian Berry
- Weddings in My Coffee Cup, Abrielle Fuerst
- How I Became a Monotheist, David Zvi Kalman
- Grief Stage, Hadassah Schneider
- Bargains with God: A Eulogy for Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Chapin Langenheim
- Ol’Time Religion, Anthony Mordechai Zvi Russell
- I’m Talking to My Plants Again, Erin Mizrahi
