People of the Book

From Sholom Aleichem to Avram Davidson, Isaac Bashevis Singer to TonyKushner, the Jewish literary tradition has always been one rich in thesupernatural and the fantastic. In these pages, gathered from the best shortfiction of the last ten years, twenty authors prove that their heritage is aliveand well — in the spaces between stars that an alphabet can bridge,folklore come to life and histories become stories, and all the places where oldworlds and new collide and change.