Jewish Fantasy Worldwide

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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 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 *