Contemplate: The International Journal of Cultural Jewish Thought
Published annually by the Center for Cultural Judaism, Contemplate
collects the best secular Jewish writing from around the world into one
volume. A hybrid of styles (literary and scholarly) and forms (essays,
arguments, and excerpts), Contemplate aims to engage and
illuminate; to provoke a discussion; and, perhaps above all, to expose
readers to material seldom published in the United States.
Since 2001, Contemplate
has published five issues, which have included writing from Australia,
France, Israel, Italy, Russia, Spain, Uruguay, and North America.
Contributors have included luminaries such as Amos Oz and Grace Paley; former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert
Pinsky; A.B. Yehoshua; and Jonathan Sarna. The most recent issue features interviews with Pulitzer-Prize winners Tony Kushner and Natalie Angier as well as scholarship by David Biale, on the premodern roots of secular Judaism.
Secular Culture & Ideas
An online journal sponsored by the Posen Foundation and edited by the Center for Cultural Judaism, Secular Culture & Ideas
takes a sharp look at secular Jewish life, culture, and literature
through its most outspoken voices. Israel Prize winner Amos Oz,
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Natalie Angier, historian Susan Jacoby,
and scholar Rachel Elior have all had their ideas featured on Secular Culture & Ideas,
which addresses weighty matters of secular Jewish identity, history,
and politics. Past issues have featured the renaissance of Yiddish culture,
memoirs of famous secular Jews, essays on making Judaism modern,
secular Passover traditions, and Sephardic and Mizrahi secularisms —
all of which is accessible on secularjewishculture.org.
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