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Jewish noir / edited by Kenneth Wishnia.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Mystery Jewish
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Fiction.
- Jews.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery stories.
- Short stories, Jewish.
- Jewish authors.
- Jewish fiction.
- Short stories.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 418 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Subtitle from cover: Contemporary tales of crime and other dark deeds
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- "Jewish Noir is a unique collection of new stories by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors. The collection has more than 30 contributors, from Marge Piercy and S.J. Rozan to the Yiddish writer Yente Serdatsky, whose story 'A Simkhe,' published in the Forverts in 1912, is appearing in English for the first time. The tales herein explore such issues as the Holocaust and its long-term effects on subsequent generations, anti-Semitism in the mid- and late-twentieth-century United States, and the dark side of the Diaspora (the decline of revolutionary fervor, the passing of generations, the Golden Ghetto, etc.). Jewish Noir's stories also include many 'teachable moments' and conversation starters about the history of prejudice and the contradictions of ethnic identity and assimilation into American society." -- From back cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction / [Kenneth Wishnia]
- Bitter herbs. Devil for a witch / R.S. Brenner
- The sacrifice of Isaac / Steven Wishnia
- Living underwater / B.K. Stevens
- Quack and Dwight / Travis Richardson
- The golden land. A simkhe (a celebration) / Yente Serdatsky
- Trajectories / Marge Piercy
- Lost pages from the Book of Judith / Kenneth Wishnia
- The legacy / Wendy Hornsby
- Night and fog. Blood diamonds / Melissa Yi
- The flowers of Shanghai / S.J. Rozan
- Feeding the crocodile / Moe Prager / Good morning, Jerusalem 1948 / Michael J. Cooper
- L'dor V'dor (from generation to generation). Some you lose / Nancy Richler
- Baruch Dayan Emet (Blessed is the true judge ) / M. Dante
- Yahrzeit candle / Stephen Jay Schwartz
- Nakhshon / Robert Lopresti
- One of them / Alan Orloff
- Silver alert / S.A. Solomon
- Suburban sprawl. Her daughter's bat mitzvah: a mother talks to the Rabbi / Adam D. Fisher
- Sucker's game / Michele Lang
- Jewish Easter / David Liss
- The Golem of Jericho
- Jonathan Santlofer
- Your Judaism / Tasha Kaminsky
- Kaffee mit schlock. Who shall live and who shall die / Charles Ardai
- Errands / Gary Phillips
- Doc's Oscar / Eddie Muller
- Everything is bashert / Heywood Gould
- The drop / Alan Gordon
- Twisted shikse / Jedidiah Ayers
- All other nights / Jason Starr
- Something's not right / Dave Zeltserman
- Vintage reprint. Idle thoughts, fifty-four years later / Harlan Ellison®
- Final shtick / Harlan Ellison®.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Lois Reibach.
- ISBN:
- 9781629631110
- 1629631116
- 9781629631592
- 1629631590
- OCLC:
- 904968391
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