© Molly Ahearn
2011–2012 NETWORK AUTHORS
Lisa Kogan
Jamie Korngold
Lee Kravitz
SOMEONE WILL BE WITH YOU SHORTLY: NOTES FROM A PERFECTLY IMPERFECT LIFE
THE GOD UPGRADE: FINDING YOUR 21ST-CENTURY SPIRITUALITY IN JUDAISM’S 5000-YEAR-OLD TRADITION
UNFINISHED BUSINESS: ONE MAN’S EXTRAORDINARY YEAR OF TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THINGS
William Kolbrener
OPEN MINDED TORAH: OF IRONY, FUNDAMENTALISM AND LOVE Continuum, 2011. $19.95 ISBN: 978-1441118660 On topics ranging from parenting a son with Down’s Syndrome to Biblical criticism to Talmudic interpretation of dreams—Kolbrener presents a perspective on Judaism that emphasizes skepticism, pluralism and the need to embrace difference. Kolbrener offers a compelling new vision where being open minded allows for a non-dogmatic and committed Judaism.
Jewish Lights Publishing, 2011. $14.99 ISBN: 978-1-58023-443-6 In this provocative look at the many faces of God, “Adventure Rabbi” Jamie Korngold examines how our concept of God has changed over the centuries and how these changes have shaped every aspect of Judaism.
Bloomsbury, 2011. $16.00 ISBN: 9781608194636 After losing his job, Lee Kravitz—a man who had always worked too hard and too much—took stock of his life and decided to spend an entire year making amends and reconnecting with the people and parts of himself he had neglected.
© Erwin Schenkelbach
Harper, 2011. $14.99 ISBN: 978-0-06-173503-5 Lisa Kogan is a 49-year-old single mother who maintains that every human being deserves a great mattress, a comfortable pair of shoes, and a very smart shrink, and that no one has grown a decent tomato since 1963. Someone Will Be with You Shortly is a book for anyone who has ever been unnerved by leather pants, lunch meat, or ambivalent men (not necessarily in that order), and believes that life is a fragile bit of luck in a world based on chance.
Iris Krasnow
James Kugel
THE SECRET LIVES OF WIVES: WOMEN SHARE WHAT IT REALLY TAKES TO STAY MARRIED
IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW: ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF
Gotham, 2011 $25.00. ISBN: 978-1-59240680-7 Bestselling author Iris Krasnow interviewed more than 200 wives whose marriages have survived 15 to 70 years to discover the secrets to staying married.
Free Press, 2011. $26.00 ISBN: 978-1-4391-3009-4 Ten years ago, Harvard professor emeritus James Kugel was diagnosed with an aggressive, likely fatal, form of cancer. In this wide-ranging exploration of different aspects of religion—interspersed with his personal reflections on the course of his own illness (which thankfully took a turn for the better)—Kugel seeks to uncover what he calls “the starting point of religious consciousness.”
Michael Krasny
New World Library, 2010. $22.95 ISBN: 978-1-57731-912-2 In Spiritual Envy, Krasny helps believers and nonbelievers alike to understand their own questions about faith and religion, about God and human responsibility.
Cynthia Kolko
FRUIT OF THE VINE Charles River Press, 2011. $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-936185-27-6 When Jem inherits a historic farm that a brash entrepreneur has in his sights for development, he befriends a woman who forces him to question the circumstances of his upbringing and the responsibilities thrust upon him.
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Jewish Book World
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© Sylvia Plachy
SPIRITUAL ENVY: AN AGNOSTIC’S QUEST Mark Kurlansky
HANK GREENBERG: THE HERO WHO DIDN’T WANT TO BE ONE Yale University Press, 2011. $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-300-13660-9 Hank Greenberg, the son of Orthodox, Yiddish-speaking immigrants, lived in the Bronx and grew up in a Jewish world, but to him it was a kind of shtetl that he dreamed of leaving. Baseball was his way out; he became a superstar, and one of the most visible Jews in America during the 1930’s—the most antiSemitic period in American history.
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