Between the Lines: A Single Life

PART OF BETWEEN THE LINES: AUTHOR CONVERSATIONS FROM THE LIBRARY OF JTS 

An online discussion with Rabbi Daniel Ross Goodman

Thursday, February 18, 2021, at 7:30 p.m. ET

Join us for an online discussion with author, rabbi, and scholar Daniel Ross Goodman about his novel, A Single Life, which blends a literary style and a Talmudic sensibility with the romance tradition.

A Single Life addresses universal issues—racism and racial identity, religious conflict, and the persistent human quest for love—through the prism of the particular experience of a single Jewish man. Fraught with dramatic tension throughout and sprinkled with generous doses of humor and feeling, the novel is timely with a timeless story—a story about the joys and sorrows, the pangs and torments, the doubts and dreams of romantic love.

Eliezer Finkelman writes in The Times of Israel: “A pathbreaking novel…this novel is the real thing, a presentation of the texture of a vividly-imagined life. In the course of examining this life, Goodman helps us rethink aspects of American life and American Judaism, but he does not provide us with easy answers.”

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This event is sponsored by The JTS Library. Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS, will serve as moderator.

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About Rabbi Daniel Ross Goodman

Daniel Ross Goodman is a writer, rabbi, and scholar from western Massachusetts. He writes on art, film, literature, and sports for the Washington Examiner, and his short stories have been published in over a dozen literary journals. He is also the author of Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Wonder and Religion in American Cinema. For the past four-and-a-half years he has been a PhD candidate at JTS, concentrating in modern Jewish thought and modern Jewish literature, and is currently working on a dissertation about the disciples of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

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