Internationally acclaimed poet and novelist Alan Kaufman will discuss the movement to share modern Jewish identity and experience through personal creative expression. He will share with us his “Jewish Journey” through excerpts from his poetry, essays, his newest book Matches and critically received memoir Jew Boy. Kaufman’s spiritual and religious quest has taken him from the front lines of the Israeli-Arab conflict, where he served as a member of the Israeli army, to the ruins of a Nazi legacy - the Dachau Concentration Camp.

The San Francisco based author is also editor of the ground breaking The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He has worked as the lead editor for DAVKA: Jewish Cultural Revolution, and Tattoo Jew, a magazine of hip Jewish culture. His books include American Cruiser, The New Generation: Fiction For Our Time From America's Writing Programs Before I Wake The Bronx-born son of a Holocaust survivor has been compared such literary greats as Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Walt Whitman, and Henry Miller.

This program was recorded live on July 7, 2006