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Book SynopsisJewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile reaches beyond American fiction to reveal a spectrum of Jewish fantasy. The essays in this collection cover speculative works by Jewish artists and about Jewish characters from a broad range of national contexts, including post-Holocaust Europe, the Soviet Union, Chile, French Canada, and the Middle East. The authors consider various media including fiction, film, Youtube videos, and fan sites. For scholars and fans alike, this collection of essays will provide new perspectives on Jewish presences in speculative fiction around the world.
Trade ReviewThese elucidations map out the true limits of the Jewish diaspora, which are also the limits of our imagination.
-- Ilan Stavans, Amherst College and author of Talmudic Void: An Interstellar Interpretation
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Jewish Speculative Fiction in Australia and New Zealand
Gillian Polack and Bettina Burger
Chapter 2. The Wandering Messiah in Alejandro Jodorowsky's Imaginary Universes
Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang
Chapter 3. When Jews Ruled the Volga: Exploring the Novels of the Khazars
Steven B. Frankel
Chapter 4. Kabbalist Rap: A Love Song for the Torah in Victoria Hanna’s Music Video אורייתא
Katharina Hadassah Wendl
Chapter 5. Djinn, Hauntings, and Double Consciousness: An Exploration of Mizrahi Magical Realism
Valerie Estelle Frankel
Chapter 6. Alternate History and Jewish Anxiety in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America
Ilana Goldstein
Chapter 7. Leybl Botwinik’s Di Geheyme Shlikhes: A Groundbreaking Yiddish Science-Fiction Novel
Stephen M. Cohen
Chapter 8. Ancient Jewish Elements in 21st Century Alfredian Fanfiction
Martine Mussies
Chapter 9. Free Will, Kabbalah, Human Nature, and Messiah: Chaim Cigan’s Time Cruise via Parallel Histories and Identities
Michaela Weiss
Chapter 10. Contra Torrentem: Leo Perutz’s By Night Under the Stone Bridge and Central European Fantasy
Cameron Barrows
Chapter 11. Motifs of Secrecy, the Hidden and the Unspoken in the Novels of Isaac Asimov and Stanislaw Lem
Julie A. Hawkins
Chapter 12. Soviet Science Fiction of the 1960s and Jewishness: The Cases of Ilya Varshavsky and Gennady Gor
Marat Grinberg
Chaper 13. Seeking a Promised Land: Estrangement and Belonging in Queer Jewish Speculative Fiction
Akiva Hoffman
Chapter 14. Why are Science Fiction Anthologies Ashkanormative?
Mara W. Cohen Ioannides and Valerie Estelle Frankel
Chapter 15. Writing the Jewish Heroine’s Journey
Evonne Marzouk and Patti McCarthy
Chapter 16. Teaching Jewish Speculative Fiction
Judy Klass
