Marc H. Ellis is retired University Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University. Among his publications areEncountering the Jewish Future (2012), Reading the Torah Out Loud (2007), Practicing Exile (2001), Oh, Jerusalem! (1999), and Unholy Alliance (1997), all from Fortress Press. He is also a regular contributor on Mondoweiss: The War of Ideas in the Middle Eastwith a series called Exile and the Prophetic
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Table of Contents Acknowledgements Prologue Chapter 1 -- Visions of the Diaspora and Homeland Perspectives on the Jewish Return Ambivalent Legacy, Uncertain Future The Present Challenge Chapter 2 -- On Memory and Justice The Jewish Liturgy of Destruction Remembering Deir Yassin The Path Chosen Chapter 3 -- Jerusalem and the Broken Middle Paths of Resistance and Affirmation A Covenant in Exile Jerusalem and the Broken Middle Chapter 4 -- The Covenant on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century Boundaries and the Covenant Tikkun of Ordinary Decency A Thick Wall of Scandal Chapter 5 -- The Great Debate over Jewish Identity and Culture Israel's Fragmentary Tikkun The Seventh Jewish Culture A Fatal Embrace Monumental Anxieties Jewish Culture and the State Chapter 6 -- Toward a New Sinai The Time Is Now Revolutionary Forgiveness Envisioning the Centenary of Israel's Birth Toward an Inclusive Palestine Culture Finding the Lost Agenda Epilogue Refusing Partial Practice The Grounding of Our Fidelity