55553X1 First Edition. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill: 2007. 255 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Like New. "What A Holiday! No pestilence, no slavery, no locusts, no cattle disease or atonement. No synagogue, no guilt, no mortar, no real lesson to be absorbed and passed down to my Jewish offspring. Thank God," writes Joshua Braff, one of eighteen Jewish writers who extol, excoriate, and expand our understanding of this most merry of Jeweish holidays. These essays, by Adam Langer, Tova Mirvis, Steve Almond, Eric Orner, Elisa Albert, Karen E. Bender, Laura Dave, Jennifer Gilmore, Jill Kargman, Amy Klein, Mameve Medwed, Joshua Neuman, Peter Orner, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Ben Schrank, Edward Schwarzschild, Robert Anthony Siegel and Jonathan Tropper, range from the comedic to the snarky, the poignant to the poetic, and include such topics as the jealousy experienced in December when the rest of America is celebrating Christmas (we never get to join in the reindeer games!; the problem parents have dampening their children's desire for more presents (call it Greedikah!; and the weight gain associated with eating 432 latkes in eight mights (dayenu, enought!. $36.50USD
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