Rodger Kamenetz is an American poet and author. He was born in Baltimore and educated at Yale , Stanford and Johns Hopkins University. He currently lives in New Orleans and is Professor Emeritus, retiring with a dual appointment as Professor of English and Professor of Religious Studies at LSU where he was also an LSU Distinguished Professor and Erich and Lea Sternberg Honors Professor. He currently works privately with clients, using dreams in a process of spiritual direction. He is best known as the author of The Jew in the Lotus , an account of the historic dialogue between rabbis and the... XIV Dalai Lama. A new "plus" edition released in 2007 includes an afterword, bringing the story of the dialogue up to date. His "Stalking Elijah" received the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought in 1997. In fall 2007, Harper One published The History of Last Night's Dream which explores the spiritual possibilities of dreaming from Genesis to now. Oprah Winfrey interviewed the author about the book in a two part XM radio broadcast, in her "Soul Series", in August 2008.
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