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$90,000 for a heart bypass in the U.S., but
only $12,000 by traveling to Thailand. This
wise and often funny narrative will change
the way we think about health care as it
raises such questions as whether medical
tourism represents the industry's future. "A
strength of this book is Issenberg's keen and
thorough on-the-ground reporting from
clinics and hospitals in Eastern Europe. His
focus is less on the medical tourists themselves, and much more on their providers and
host nations," wrote International Medical
Travel Journal.
Reading Genesis: Beginnings
Edited by Beth Kissileff '85
Bloomsbury T&T Clark, February 25, 2016
Deuteronomy 32:47 says
the Pentateuch should
not be "an empty
matter." Reading
Genesis: Beginnings,
edited by Beth Kissileff,
Ph.D., is an anthology of
discussions on the first
book of the Old
Testament that gathers
together thinkers who apply their professional
knowledge to illuminate the Biblical text. The
writers in this anthology use insights from
psychology, law, political science, literature,
and other scholarly fields to create an original
constellation of modern Biblical readings and
receptions of Genesis. The distinguished
contributors include a scientist of appetite on
Eve's eating behavior; law professors on
contracts and on collective punishments in
Genesis; an anthropologist on the nature of
human strife in the Cain and Abel story;
political scientists on the nature of Biblical
games, Abraham's resistance and collective
action. Found here are essays by Alan
Dershowitz, Dr. Ruth Westheimer with
Jonathan Mark, the novelists Rebecca
Newberger Goldstein and Dara Horn, critics
Ilan Stavans and Sander Gilman, historian
Russell Jacoby, poets Alicia Suskin Ostriker
and Jacqueline Osherow, and food writer Joan
Nathan. Kissileff, a professor and frequent
contributor to major publications, brings these
voices together seamlessly. Wrote Rebecca I.
Denova in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
"Reading Genesis: Beginnings offers a gateway
into a treasure trove of stories and characters
that have influenced Western culture through
religion, art and literature. With modern tools
of analysis, these stories can still guide our
exploration of human nature."

Questioning Return: A Novel
By Beth Kissileff '85
Mandel Vilar Press, November 15, 2016
Every year, 700,000
Americans visit Israel.
In Questioning Return:
A Novel Beth Kissileff
'84 brings us Wendy
Goldberg, an ambitious
graduate student who
spends a year in
Jerusalem questioning
the lives of American
Jews who do "Aliya"-defined as a return to
Israel and sometimes as a return to traditional
religious practices. Wendy wonders: Are they
sincere? Are they happier? The unexpected
answers she finds, along with her experiences
(a bus bombing, a funeral, an unexpected
suicide, a love affair, and a lawsuit) lead her to
reconsider her own true Jewish identity,
changing her life forever. Wendy travels to
Jerusalem on a path to academic glory, but
from the moment her plane takes off she is
confronted with unanswerable questions of
faith and identity. As she becomes immersed
in the rhythm of Israeli life, her sense of
distance from it fades. Her ability to be an
outside observer terminates abruptly when a
student commits a horrible act immediately
after his interview with her. Wendy is not sure
how or if she is implicated in his action, but in
her search for understanding, she is led to
knowledge and love in unforeseen places.
"The brainy, conflicted heroine of Beth
Kissileff's heart-stirring debut novel
Questioning Return goes to Israel to interview
baalei teshuvah, Jews who have come home to
a tradition once lost to them. The process
launches her on an intellectual, spiritual, and
romantic adventure that will change your
understanding of what it means to truly
belong. An eloquent and absorbing achievement," wrote author Steve Stern.
Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter
Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press
By Richard Kluger '52
W. W. Norton & Company, September 13, 2016
The liberty of written
and spoken expression
has been fixed in the
firmament of our social
values since our
nation's beginning: the
U.S. government was
the first to legalize free
speech and a free

press as fundamental rights. But when the
British began colonizing the New World, strict
censorship was the iron rule of the realm. Any
words, true or false, that were thought to
disparage the government were judged a
criminally subversive and duly punishable
threat to law and order. Even after Parliament
lifted press censorship late in the 17th century,
printers published what they wished at their
peril. Thus, when in 1733 a small newspaper,
the New-York Weekly Journal, printed
scathing articles assailing the new British
governor, William Cosby, as corrupt and
abusive, colonial New York was scandalized.
In fact, the paper's publisher, John Peter
Zenger, an impoverished printer with a wife
and six children, had no hand in the paper's
vitriolic editorial content. He was only a front
man for Cosby's adversaries, New York
Supreme Court Chief Justice Lewis Morris
and the shrewd attorney James Alexander.
Zenger nevertheless became the courageous
fall guy when Cosby brought the full force of
his high office down upon it. Jailed for the
better part of a year, Zenger faced a jury on
August 4, 1735, in a proceeding matched in
importance during the colonial period only by
the Salem Witch Trials.
In Indelible Ink, acclaimed social historian
Richard Kluger '52 brings us the untold story
of the battle to legalize free expression in
America. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author
of Ashes to Ashes Kluger re-creates in rich
detail this dramatic clash of powerful antagonists that marked the beginning of press
freedom in America and its role in vanquishing colonial tyranny. Here is an enduring
lesson that resounds to this day on the vital
importance of free public expression as the
underpinning of democracy. "[Kluger] brings ...
vivid storytelling built on exacting research,
a knack for animating the context and an
exquisite sense of balance that honors this
country's essential press freedom without
romanticizing its champions," wrote Bill Keller
in The New York Times Book Review. "Think
Hamilton meets John Grisham," said Brad
Thor on The Today Show. "We have a First
Amendment and we got into the American
Revolution because of the explosive things
that happened in this book."

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