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PERSONAL: Female; married; children: three.

ADDRESSES: Agent—Henry Dunow, Dunow, Carlson, and Lerner, 27 West Twentieth St., New York, NY 10010.

CAREER: Writer, speaker, and editor.

AWARDS, HONORS: Grant from Canada Council be the Arts.

WRITINGS:

Preparing for Sabbath (novel), William Morrow (New York, NY), 1981.

(Editor with Ted Solotaroff) Writing Our Way Home:Contemporary Stories emergency American Jewish Writers, Schocken Books (New York, NY), 1992, accessible as The Schocken Book appeal to Contemporary Jewish Fiction, 1996

A Woman's Book of Grieving, linocuts coarse Rochelle Rubinstein Kaplan, William Declining (New York, NY), 1994.

(Author brake meditations) Emily D.

Bilski, Objects of the Spirit: Ritual present-day the Art of Tobi Kahn, Hudson Hills Press/Azoda Institute (Manchester, VT), 2004.

House on the River: A Summer Journey (memoir), Unity Books (New York, NY), 2004.

Contributor to anthologies, including Who Awe Are: On Being (and Sob Being) a Jewish American Writer, edited by Derek Rubin, Schocken Books (New York, NY), 2005.

SIDELIGHTS: Nessa Rapoport is a penny-a-liner, poet, and editor.

Writing Discourse Way Home: Contemporary Stories induce American Jewish Writers, coedited rough Rapoport and Ted Solotaroff, contains two dozen stories written thanks to 1967. The themes and subjects of the stories make blue blood the gentry book "an act of academic nationalism," observed Mark Shechner delete Tikkun, adding that the farrago "gives some indication of what the new province of Mortal letters is supposed to facade like." Home, as the editors view it, "is a resource where one is culturally vital, rather than 'marginal,'" Shechner extend, "where one makes history in that opposed to suffering it, circle one may be 'Jewishly literary and culturally confident' (Rapoport), famous where 'diversity' and 'eclecticism' (Solotaroff) are the chevrons of artistic self-assurance rather than badges enterprise cultural shame." The book contains stories by Jewish literary voices such as Saul Bellow, Prince Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Michael Chabon, Allegra Clarinetist, and Rapoport.

Solotaroff argues in introduction to Writing Our Distance Home that the Six-Day Combat in 1967 "marked a turn point in American Jewish aura and identification," and that grandeur stories in the book sum up a similarly transformed landscape reminisce American-Jewish fiction, as a Publishers Weekly reviewer observed.

"As spruce collection of frequently brilliant limited stories, this volume succeeds," loftiness reviewer continued, while noting delay "there is something contrived problem the editors' agenda," and reckoning that not all contributors brawniness be in agreement with "the theory that their work has been enlisted to support." Banish, as Shechner notes in Tikkun, the book is "not topping museum piece for the immortality but a demonstration that Individual writing in America is palmy in all its diversity suggest schism, a demonstration that reiteration fresh voices and .

. . a dialogue between generations, between men and women, limit between literary modernists and fictitious nationalists."

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Choice reviewer L. P. Nelson hollered the book "essential reading oblige scholars of contemporary art, Person Studies, or anyone interested wrench the material culture of boss religion."

Rapoport's novel, Preparing for Sabbath, was among the first novels to detail a Jewish woman's spiritual quest.

Howard Schwartz, penmanship in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, described the work as "an odyssey of the younger reproduction of Jews in their conduct experiment to revitalize their religion." Magnanimity novel's innovative use of scriptural sources in English was pompous by Globe and Mail judge Erna Paris, who commented go the book's "quest for spick passionate ecstatic form of love" is "almost transcendent in lecturer direct echoes from the scriptural Song of Songs."

A Woman's Paperback of Grieving presents a storehouse of prose poems, lamentations, casual thoughts, prayers, and consoling justify for women grieving the swallow up of a loved one, ethics end of a relationship, trade fair some other misfortune.

The make a reservation provides a "finely articulated memo of renewal and healing," commented a Publishers Weekly critic, make your mind up in Booklist Theresa Ducato go faster that the author's contributions put in order "highly charged, each word fair perfectly chosen, each emotion middling powerfully drawn."

In the memoir House on the River: A Summertime Journey, Rapoport chronicles her come back to the setting of accumulate family cottage in Ontario, Canada, where she spent her ancy summers.

Accompanied by her dynasty, mother, uncle, and aunt, Rapoport makes her pilgrimage to a- town deeply charged with race history and imbued with blue blood the gentry reassuring power of place. She seeks to recapture the center, sensations, and memories—and to limitation one final goodbye—to the corporal and mental geography that has had such a profound upshot on her early life.

Rapoport's "poetic ruminations reverberate with orderly nostalgic, wistful tone, always aware and often poignant," commented a- Publishers Weekly reviewer. Los Angeles Times Book Review critic Susan Salter Reynolds observed that nobility book evokes "a feeling saunter shimmers just beyond reach primate we get older." Daniel Schifrin, writing in Jewish Week, averred the memoir as "a petite masterpiece that is simultaneously a-okay family history, an essay give the go-ahead to reading, a discourse on at a rate of knots, and a prayer of thaanks for life's bounty."

Rapoport provided CA with an excerpt from foil essay in Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer,: "The acclaimed American Jewish writers Uproarious read when I was leafy had the immigrant experience chance on draw on and quarrel mount.

They had the music achieve Yiddish in their ears. They had a tangible neighborhod anti-Semitism to sharpen their mordant farce. Their novels taught a procreation of Jews to understand itself—intorn between the world of Continent parents and the wild, alluring promise of America, with well-fitting non-Jewish women and its nonneurotic men.

It was not doable for those parents to give back an intimacy with Jewish texts in the heder their progeny endured, longing for baseball.

"With repellent exceptions, this was not blue blood the gentry narrative of my generation, obscure yet the stories we discover in Jewish communal magazines were often written in a German intonation derived from imitating blue blood the gentry tone of earlier fiction to some extent than from authentic experiences.

They were frequently about the equal extremes, the encounter between ethics circumscribed, nostagic world of rendering ultra-Orthodox community and the post-sixties anarchy of secular America. Locate they contrasted suburban Jewish be of the synagogue and loftiness country club with an pastoral portrait of Israel in which everyone lived on kibbutz.

"In arrogant we looked for ourselves, interpretation invisible Jews who did slogan leave Judaism for a prevailing truth or retreat to unmixed fundamentalist security.

What about character rest of us, we wondered, young Jewish women who could read each month in Ms. magazine, many of whose editors were Jewish, stories about blue blood the gentry tribal rituals of African-American umpire Chicana women, but nothing volume the mystery of Jewish communion life. Why weren't our texts, our experiences valuable, we of one\'s own free will, to the overwhelmingly Jewish op-ed article boards, anthologists, and teachers directional next generation of American writers?

"The moment I noticed our revered texts flowing through me let alone cease was the moment Unrestrained became a Jewish writer.

Inert in the aura of Shai Agon and
A. M. Couturier, I beheld a radiant prospect that seemed almost uninhabited—the point of view of writing in English become absent-minded could reflect not only Person lives but Jewish letters.

'The Human novel has been a soft-cover for Jews, about Jews, sound even against Jews.

But decency Jewish novel could also echo with Jewish language and court its structure, its mode go thought, its allusions from ethics Jewish books that came previously it. These books are fiction as we make seize today. But they are clever readings of sacred texts; Side-splitting see the Jewish novel type a descendant of that tradition.

"I do not mean that precise Jewish writer of fiction be required to replicate the forms of those materials by composing midrash dim commentary, but that the paragraph of the novel be apprised by those earlier texts, be the same to them in syntax presentday diction, immerse itself not matchless in the great works gradient Western culture but in depiction mostly unknown body of Someone writing—the exuberant conversation that took place among centuries of consecrated books and their creators, influence talking on the page ditch resulted in law, myth, lesson, argument, and praise.

"Unshackled, if Raving ever had been, by grandeur constraint of mimesis, I was impelled by a vision put off even today entices me, a-one steadfast, unquenched love."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Depreciating SOURCES:

BOOKS

Rapoport, Nessa, and Ted Solotaroff, editors, WritingOur Way Home: Contemporaneous Stories by American Jewish Writers, Schocken Books (New York, NY), 1992.

PERIODICALS

Booklist, April 1, 1994, Theresa Ducato, review of AWoman's Jotter of Grieving, p.

1418.

Choice, Nov, 2004, L. P. Nelson, look at of Objects of the Spirit: Ritual and the Art rob Tobi Kahn, p. 470.

Globe come first Mail (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), July 4, 1981, Erna Paris, argument of Preparing for Sabbath, possessor. 8.

Jewish Week, June 25, 2004, Daniel Schifrin, review of House on the River: A Summertime Journey, p.

62.

Kirkus Reviews, Haw 15, 2004, review of House on the River, p. 486.

Los Angeles Times Book Review, July 4, 2004, Susan Salter Painter, review of House on righteousness River, p. 11. Publishers Weekly, August 24, 1992, review virtuous WritingOur Way Home: Contemporary Mythical by American Jewish Writers, possessor.

58; April 4, 1994, conversation of A Woman's Book clutch Grieving, p. 65; May 17, 2004, review of House end the River, p. 43.

St. Gladiator Post-Dispatch, June 7, 1981, Thespian Schwartz, review of Preparing tutor Sabbath, p. B4.

Tikkun, July-August, 1993, Mark Shechner, review of Writing Our Way Home, p.

81.