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Bound in the bond of life : Pittsburgh writers reflect on the Tree of Life tragedy / edited by Beth Kissileff and Eric Lidji.

Contributor Kissileff, Beth, editor.

ImprintPittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]

Descriptionxiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Note:Foreword / David M. Shribman -- Introduction / Eric Lidji -- Here Is Squirrel Hill / Molly Pascal -- Closed because of yesterday / Andrew Goldstein -- I Read somewhere that Pittsburgh is stronger than hate / Tony Norman -- The news next door / Ann Belser -- Wire and string / Kevin Haworth -- Imposter or activist / Avigail S. Oren -- Pittsburgh positive / Brooke Barker -- Sharing their stories / Laura Zittrain Eisenberg -- Processing / Eric Lidji -- Honey from the carcass / Beth Kissileff -- Lisa's tango survival strategy / Lisa D. Brush -- The day they honored / Susan Jacobs Jablow -- Covering the unprecedented / Peter Smith -- Memorialization, mourning, surviving / Adam Shear -- Finding the vessels / Rabbi Daniel Yolkut -- Shocked, not surprised / Arlene Weiner -- Eleh Ezkerah, Nusach Pittsburgh / Rabbi Jonathan Perlman -- Keith Way / Campbell Robertson -- The last day I felt safe as an American Jew / Toby Tabachnick -- Walking is my tribute / Abby W. Schachter -- After the outpouring / Jane Bernstein -- Fall semester 2018 / Barbara S. Burstin -- "You will get through it" / Linda F. Hurwitz -- Afterword / Beth Kissileff.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.

Note:On October 27, 2018, three congregations were holding their morning Shabbat services at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh when a lone gunman entered the building and opened fire. He killed eleven people and injured six. The essays in this anthology tell a collective story of city shaken to its very core.



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