People of the Book

by Swirsky, Rachel; Wallace, Sean

• ISBN13: 9781607012382
• ISBN10: 1607012383
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-14
• Publisher: Diamond Comic Distributors

Summary

From Sholom Aleichem to Avram Davidson, Isaac Bashevis Singer to Tony Kushner, the Jewish literary tradition has always been one rich in the supernatural and the fantastic. In these pages, gathered from the best short fiction of the last ten years, twenty authors prove that their heritage is alive and well - in the spaces between stars that an alphabet can bridge, folklore come to life and histories become stories, and all the places where old worlds and new collide and change. These are the people of the book. Open, read; the universe is made of words.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 11
Burning Beard: The Dreams and Visions of Joseph ben Jacob, Lord Viceroy of Egypt	p. 13
How the Little Rabbi Grew	p. 27
Geddarien	p. 36
The Wings of Meister Wilhelm	p. 47
The Dybbuk in Love	p. 67
Fidelity: A Primer	p. 83
Niels Bohr and the Sleeping Dane	p. 101
The Tsar's Dragons	p. 118
Going East	p. 149
Dark Coffee, Bright Light and the Paradoxes of Omnipotence	p. 161
Biographical Notes to "A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-planes"	p. 170
Alienation and Love in the Hebrew Alphabet	p. 188
The Problem of Susan	p. 196
Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel	p. 203
Eliyahu ha-Navi	p. 231
Reuben	p. 236
The Muldoon	p. 247
Semaphore	p. 269
Golems I Have Known, or, Why My Elder Son's Middle Name Is Napoleon: A Trickster's Memoir	p. 282
The History Within Us	p. 297
About the Contributors	p. 311
Publication History and Copyrights	p. 317
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