Edited Books

A Life of Meaning, Embracing Reform Judaism’s Sacred Path edited by Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan, PH.D 70’s? Rabbi Kaplan has put together an impressive collection of essays by rabbis, cantors and scholars, exploring the wide spectrum of approaches to this religion for its participants and for anyone e

Theater, edited by Tom Sellar mid 80’s? This periodical is the journal of Yale School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theater. I arbitrarily chose volume 47, Number 1 and discovered the theme was “Curating Crisis.” The notion that theater would have a curator, which I associate with the visual arts,

Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty records and analyses a Marilyn Minter retrospective, co-directed by Bill Arning ‘7?, who writes a director’s foreword and the introductory essay, “Marilyn Minter: From Unshiny to Shiny.” Bill, who directs the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, has collaborated with oth

· Through Indian Eyes ed. Don and Jean Elliott Johnson (te, 1934-2017) Jean and her husband Don put together this highly informative book about India, a country of great economic and political importance and with a continuous history of 5000 years. Jean and Don introduce each item of the comprehe

Why I Like this Story, Edited by Jackson R. Bryer 50’s. I try to describe these books and, though I suppose there is some inevitable judging, my goal is for you to see what this book is like, not what I think it is worth. I usually like the books very much, but if I don’t, maybe you will. I think

Poetry in Motion, 100 poems from the subways and buses, edited by Molly Peacock ff, Elise Paschen and Neil Neches, with an introduction by Molly, who as president of the Poetry Society of America, helped launch the program in 1992. These gems, from poets as far back as Sappho to Shakespeare to Words

Dutch New York Between East and West, The World of Margrieta van Varick ed. Deborah L. Krohn (late ‘70’s) and Peter N. Miller. Margrieta van Varick settled in the rural village of Flatbush with her husband, a Dutch Reformed minister in 1686. More recently, a comprehensive hand-written inventory of

Where Were You? America Remembers the JFK Assassination, compiled and edited by Gus Russo and Harry Moses circa ’60. One of the grammar points we have to teach in French is the kind of sentence often referred to as “interrupted action.” Most Law and Order episodes begin with an ‘interrupted

A Village Destroyed, May 14, 1999, War Crimes in Kosovo, Jointly developed by Fred Abrahams 80’s?, Gilles Peress, and Eric Stover under the aegis of Human Rights Watch. I am grateful to Ron Singer for telling me about this book. On the morning of this day, Cuska, a village in Kosovo, populated by

· Vintage Magazine, Quatrième Issue, ed. Ivy Baer Sherman (’74. Ivy also worked at the school, but I can’t remember her exact title). I planned to discuss only books here, but each of these gorgeous magazines could well be called a book. Quatrième Issue is a surprise box, filled with pop-ups, fol