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Jewish Fantasy Worldwide

Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile

Edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel - Contributions by Cameron Barrows; Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang; Bettina Burger; Stephen M. Cohen; Steven B. Frankel; Valerie Estelle Frankel; Ilana Goldstein; Marat Grinberg; Julie A. Hawkins; Akiva Hoffman; Mara W. Cohen Ioannides; Judy Klass; Evonne Marzouk; Patti McCarthy; Martine Mussies; Gillian Polack; Michaela Weiss and Katharina Hadassah Wendl

Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile reaches beyond American fiction to reveal a spectrum of Jewish imagination. The chapters 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, Israel, South America, French Canada, and the Middle East. The contributors consider various media including novels, short stories, film, YouTube videos, and fanfiction. Essays explore topics ranging from the ancient Jewish kingdom of Khazaria to modern university classes and the revival of Yiddish to the breadth of LGBTQ+ representation. For scholars and fans alike, this collection of essays will provide new perspectives on Jewish presences in speculative fiction around the world.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 320 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-66692-660-6 • Hardback • April 2023 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-1-66692-661-3 • eBook • April 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Series: Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy
Subjects: Social Science / Jewish Studies, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Popular Culture

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

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

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


This is a wonderful volume, offering a wealth of information and analysis on the incredibly important, and yet often overlooked, topic of Jewish science fiction and fantasy. Historically, Jews have been central to the development of the genre in the US. But outside the US, there are many strands of Jewish-themed and Jewish-inspired speculative fiction that are almost unknown to the Anglophone academy. This comprehensive collection presents a broad overview of Jewish speculative fiction around the world, emphasizing both its heterogeneity and its unifying substratum of shared history and identity. Ranging from Australia to Central Europe, from Mizrahi Magical Realism to Soviet Science Fiction, this collection is indispensable to any serious scholar of Jewish culture and speculative fiction.


— Elana Gomel, Tel-Aviv University and editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy


Jewish Fantasy Worldwide [does] an excellent job of giving wide-ranging perspectives on little-known authors, and new perspectives on well-known authors. Even contributions that go beyond the project’s parameters provide something substantial, well-researched, and well-written.


— Mythlore


Jewish Fantasy Worldwide

Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile

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Hardback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile reaches beyond American fiction to reveal a spectrum of Jewish imagination. The chapters 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, Israel, South America, French Canada, and the Middle East. The contributors consider various media including novels, short stories, film, YouTube videos, and fanfiction. Essays explore topics ranging from the ancient Jewish kingdom of Khazaria to modern university classes and the revival of Yiddish to the breadth of LGBTQ+ representation. For scholars and fans alike, this collection of essays will provide new perspectives on Jewish presences in speculative fiction around the world.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 320 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-66692-660-6 • Hardback • April 2023 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
    978-1-66692-661-3 • eBook • April 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Series: Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Subjects: Social Science / Jewish Studies, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Popular Culture
Author
Author
  • Valerie Estelle Frankel teaches at Mission College and San Jose City College.

Table of Contents
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

Reviews
Reviews
  • 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


    This is a wonderful volume, offering a wealth of information and analysis on the incredibly important, and yet often overlooked, topic of Jewish science fiction and fantasy. Historically, Jews have been central to the development of the genre in the US. But outside the US, there are many strands of Jewish-themed and Jewish-inspired speculative fiction that are almost unknown to the Anglophone academy. This comprehensive collection presents a broad overview of Jewish speculative fiction around the world, emphasizing both its heterogeneity and its unifying substratum of shared history and identity. Ranging from Australia to Central Europe, from Mizrahi Magical Realism to Soviet Science Fiction, this collection is indispensable to any serious scholar of Jewish culture and speculative fiction.


    — Elana Gomel, Tel-Aviv University and editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy


    Jewish Fantasy Worldwide [does] an excellent job of giving wide-ranging perspectives on little-known authors, and new perspectives on well-known authors. Even contributions that go beyond the project’s parameters provide something substantial, well-researched, and well-written.


    — Mythlore


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