LETTERS TO THE EDITOR French antisemitism
ARTICLES
REVIEWS OF THE LAMP OF GOD.
“A masterful work, and so timely; there is a spiritual yearning in the country, which The Lamp of God will help to satisfy.”
—Bill Moyers, Public Affairs Television, Inc.
“Freema Gottlieb’s beautiful book The Lamp of God is written in black fire on white fire; it is the kind of book that had to be written, that comes from the deep sources of both the author and the Jewish tradition, and whose brilliance blazes off its rough edges.”
“Both a very conservative book, in love with roots, with nuances of orthodox tradition, immersed in sources, and an entirely radical, free-thinking one, that gives one a sense of understanding stories in the Bible, and mitzvoth, in a way that they have never been understood before.
—Francis Landy, professor of Religious Studies, University of Alberta, Midstream,.
“Of deep interest to all who want to know more about the extraordinary achievements of those who, through so many ages, have given their poetic and imaginative power to the enrichment of an ancient tradition. A dedicated performance and an admirable book.”
—Frank Kermode, Fellow of the British Academy, professor emeritus of English Literature at Cambridge, member of the working party on interpretation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, coauthor The Literary Guide to the Bible, and author of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature and many other works
“Freema Gottlieb weighs into history, the history of our beginnings, like a true poet. Light in her hands is tangible; it can be felt, it can be held. Her art is truly transformational in the best sense: it treats its subject as though for the first time, and will certainly cause a stir.”
—James Ellison, former executive editor, Book-of-the-Month Club, and book editor of Psychology Today
“Freema Gottlieb is a truly talented storyteller gifted with a luminous and original imagination.”
—Judith Rossner, novelist, author August, Looking for Mr. Goodbar and other novels.
“The writing is not linear and expository, but associative and reflective. Some passages appear to have been written in a meditative consciousness and might serve as the objects of spiritual contemplation.”
—Nehemia Polen, associate assistant professor of Jewish Thought, Boston Hebrew College ,and author of Esh Kodesh, the Warsaw Ghetto writings of Rabbi Kalonymos Shapiro.
Visionary Nonfiction
A meditation on 3,000 years of Jewish sources to which the light metaphor is key.
Newly available internationally and affordably in a Kindle edition.
Creative or visionary midrashic nonfiction, newspaper column
Jewish Week, March 13, 2017
Example(s) of occasional column(s) in Jewish Week’s Sabbath Week.
Memoir-in-progress
Gut Renovation is a memoir-in-progress about the transformation of an apartment that originally was a Jerusalem water well.