Synopses & Reviews
In these thirty-one stories, award-winning translator Joachim Neugroschel brings together a dazzling variety of writers and the most outstanding works of Jewish imagination and folklore. Such famous stories as Yudi Rosenberg's "The Golem" and Ber Horovitz's "The Dybbuk" are here. Other writers included are Y. L. Perez and Rabbi Nakhman -- whose work influenced Franz Kafka. The spectrum of styles and subject matter is wide, ranging from the bizarre and visionary to the beautifully lyrical, from glittering allegory to homespun realism. These mystical and imaginative writings together make up the small body of occult and fantastic literature that can truly be considered classic. "Joachim Neugroschel presents the religious imagination in one of its most powerful and exalted permutations." -- The New York Times