An intriguing Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction
Terence Ball, The Banality of Evil
Sandra Levy Ceren, Silver Is Better Than Gold
Martin S. Cohen, Death Has Beckoned
Richard Fliegel, The Golem of Bronx Park East
Michael A. Kahn, Truth in a Plain Brown Wrapper
Stuart M. Kaminsky, The Tenth Man
Rochelle Krich,Bitter Waters
Ronald Levitsky,Thy Brother's Bloods
Lev Raphael, Your Papers, Please
Shelley Singer, Reconciling Howard
Janice Steinberg, Hospitality in a Dry Country
Batya Swift Yasgur, Without a Trace
All-new stories from twelve of today’s masters of mystery and detective fiction―sure to delight mystery buffs of all faith traditions, and fans of the award-winning Mystery Midrash: An Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction.
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Criminal Kabbalah will entertain you and illuminate this part of the Jewish tradition.
In addition, it is part of a chain of tradition of Jewish stories. It provides an answer to the question asked in a traditional Jewish saying: “Why were human beings created? Because God loves to hear stories.”
In her forward Laurie King writes,
The word Kabbalah grows from the Hebrew root kbl, which has to do with things received. Tradition-the things received-the powerful symbols of everyday reality-lead us back to that spark that we might restore the perfect state in which we began.
The word Crime comes from the Latin crimen, which has to do with faults and flaws. In the context of traditional (that is, received) crime fiction, an offense is committed. The story then follows the efforts of the investigator to restore order, to set things back, not as they were, but in balance with how they used to be.
Crime fiction, then, has essentially the same goal as Kabbalistic mysticism-on a considerably less exalted level. A satisfying mystery imparts the feeling that the reader has been united, however briefly and frivolously, with Truth.
You are receiving (kbl) here the efforts of twelve writers seeking to restore a little order to our flawed (crimen) universe. They will bring you sparks of pleasure, and possibly even of Truth.
Lawrence W. Raphael is a rabbi and author as well as the Senior Rabbi at Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco. He has written articles about Jewish identity in detective fiction, and lives in San Francisco, California.
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