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Author:   Valerie Estelle Frankel ,  Cameron Barrows ,  Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang ,  Bettina Burger
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9781666926606

ISBN 10:   1666926604
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   06 April 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 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

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These 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

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Valerie Estelle Frankel teaches at Mission College and San Jose City College.

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