Jewish Revival Inside Out: Remaking Jewishness in a Transnational Age (ed. Daniel Monterescu and Rachel Werczberger) Wayne State University Press, 2022
This volume explores the global transformations of contemporary Jewishness, which give renewed meaning to identity, tradition, and politics in our post secular world.
My chapter essay is titled: “Jewish. Jewish? “Jewish” Jewish! New Authenticities amid Post-Holocaust, Postcommunist Europe’s Jewish Revival”
Jews and Slavs. Volume 27: Jewish-Slavic Cultural Horizons: Essays on Jewish History and Art in Slavic Lands (ed. Sergey R. Kravtsov, Polona Vidmar) Jerusalem, 2022
My essay in the book has a l-o-n-g title: “Preservers/Rescuers/Keepers/Guardians of Memory: Recognizing non-Jewish Poles who preserve, protect, conserve, and promote Jewish history, heritage and memory.”
Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History (ed. Simone Lässig and Miriam Rürup) Berghahn Books, 2017.
I have a chapter titled “Real Imaginary Spaces and Places: Virtual, Actual, and Otherwise” that represents a lot of my recent thinking and the evolution of the ideas of “virtually Jewish,” “new authenticities,” and “real imaginary” spaces.
Reiten Wir: Phantastikautoren für Karl May (ed. Alex Jahnke). Roter Drache, 2017.
I provided the Foreword to this book — fantasy stories inspired by the charaters in the German author Karl May’s wild west adventure tales.
Framing Jewish Culture: Boundaries and Representations (ed. Simon J. Bronner) Jewish Cultural Studies, Volume 4. Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2014
I contribute the Forum Essay, “Beyond Virtual Jewishness: Monuments to Jewish Experience in Eastern Europe” and response to essays written in response to my piece.
Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History (Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. 26). Richard I. Cohen, editor. Oxford University Press, 2012.
I contribute an essay on Jewish museums in Europe under Communism: “Post-trauma ‘Precious Legacies’: Jewish Museums in Eastern Europe after the Holocaust and before the Fall of Communism”
Speaking with George Oppen: Interviews with the Poet and Mary Oppen, 1968-1987. Ed. Richard Swigg.
McFarland, 2012
Seventeen interviews with the award-winning American poet George Oppen, conducted between 1968 and 1987, are here brought together for the first time. Two are fresh discoveries, while re-audited recordings of other interviews have given a new authoritative accuracy to the text. These conversations provide a unique account of a major American poet’s evolution, through the Depression, war, exile and a return to poetry after two decades of silence.
Introduction to A Second Soul: 20 Jewish Culture Festivals in Krakow, by Anna Dodziuk. (Krakow: Czarna Owca, 2010)
Sacred Places of a Lifetime: 500 of the World’s Most Peaceful and Powerful Destinations
National Geographic 2008
Reclaiming Memory: Urban regeneration in the historic Jewish quarters of Central European cities
(Monika Murzyn, Jacek Purchla, eds)
International Culture Center, Krakow, 2009
- Foreword to Jewish Cemeteries of Bucovina, by Simon Geissbuehler. (Bucharest: 2009)
- Introduction to Lost World of Small-town Jewish Cemeteries, by Tomasz Wisniewski. (Bialystok: Kreator, 2009)
- “Juedische und ‘juedische’ Cafés.” In Michal Friedlander and Cilly Kugelmann, eds. Koscher & Co. Ueber Essen und Religion. (Berlin: Nicolai, 2009)
- Photographs — illustrations and cover — for The Verse Within: Conversing with the Hasidic Tales, poems by Lois Roisman. (Enfield, 2008)
- “Kitschy Jews,” in Hanno Loewy (ed.), Gerüchte über die Juden. Antisemitismus, Philosemitismus und aktuelle Verschwörungstheorien. (Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2005)
- “The Jewish Culture Festival, Krakow,” in Polin (Oxford: Littman Library, 2003)
- “A Virtual Jewish World,” in Jewish Studies Program Yearbook (Budapest: 2002)
Nice to See You: Homage to Ted Berrigan
(Anne Waldman, ed)
Coffee House Press, 1991
My interview with Ted Berrigan and George Oppen was first published here in book form.
Books Edited
To Begin Again: Jewish Life in Central and Eastern Europe Since the Fall of Communism in 1989. (Vienna: Centropa, 2009).
1990-2000: Ebrei Europei Dieci Anni Dopo la Fine del Socialismo Reale (1990-2000: European Jews Ten Years After the Fall of Communism). (Rome: UCEI, 2002).
Co-edited with Laura Quercioli Mincer; the book is illustrated with my photographs.
