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    HebrewPunk

    By Lavie Tidhar

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    About this ebook

    In HebrewPunk, World Fantasy Award-winning author Lavie Tidhar builds stories that are infused with centuries of tradition and painted with Hebrew mythology. We meet the Tzaddik as he faces off against a vengeful angel intent on sending the Fallen to hell. The shape shifting Rat fights lycanthropic Nazis. The Rabbi takes us on a thoughtful and amusing journey into the possibilities of a Jewish state in the heart of Africa. Finally, all three protagonists appear in an old-fashioned caper story that will leave you breathless.

    Includes introduction and story notes by the author.

    Blurbs:
    “How well I recall, as a lad aged some ten years, circa 1937, reading Lavie Tidhar’s stirring adventures in such pulps as Thrilling Hebrew Tales and Yiddish Excitement Quarterly. Even then, these tales possessed a fascinating air of archaic menace and occult power. Now, some seventy years after their original publication, they positively radiate the uncanny sensibilities of a bygone era. What a cast of characters—the Rabbi, the Rat and the Tzaddik, as memorable as Doc Savage and his crew! And what a set of venues—the London underworld, the African jungles, and more! Plus robust menaces galore! Lavie Tidhar surpassed those who went before him, such as H. Rider Haggard, and inspired those who came after, viz, Avram Davidson and Alan Moore. Having these rousing romps gathered at last into the volume HebrewPunk marks a milestone in the literature of the fantastic.”
    —Paul Di Filippo, author of The Emperor of Gondwanaland and Other Stories

    “Lavie Tidhar has staked out (no pun intended) his own territory by imagining a Judaic mystical alternative history into which he injects vampires, zombies, werewolves, Tzaddiks, golems, and Rabbis. These four stories are wondrous, adventurous, and thought-provoking.”
    —Ellen Datlow, co-editor of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror

    “Here we have stories of Tzaddik, The Rat, the Rabbi... Lavie is mining ancient traditions and recent history to write stories of modern despair and a weird sort of redemptive compassion, messing with our expectations and always, always, leading with our humanity, even when those heroes are, by some standards, monsters.”
    —Laura Anne Gilman, author of Burning Bridges

    “Lavie Tidhar has a unique and fascinating voice, as well as a good sense of history— both History Surreal and History Literary, as well as the more mundane kind. Imagine Hard-Boiled Kabbalah, a Godfather Rabbi whose gang includes vampires, werewolves and (naturally) golems. If you like your otherworld fun noir, have I got a book for you!”
    —Kage Baker, author of In the Garden of Iden

    “I did read the book, and the good thing is that I loved it—kick-ass kosher adventures. Tidhar writes a sort of intensified supernatural action-surrealism that fair rattles along and is full of surprises—not only plot-twists and thrills, but a level of conceptual surprise, a reinvigoration of some of the more tired conventions of the fantasy-horror genre. Zombies, golems, werewolves, Rabbis, Kabbala, it’s all here, and all saturated with a sense of exotic roundedness, an eerie solidity and reality. Not to be missed.”
    —Adam Roberts, author of Gradisyl

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApex Book Company
    Release dateApr 1, 2010
    ISBN9781452361680
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    HebrewPunk
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    Lavie Tidhar

    Lavie Tidhar's work encompasses literary fiction (Maror, Adama and the forthcoming Six Lives), cross-genre classics such as Jerwood Prize winner A Man Lies Dreaming (2014) and World Fantasy Award winner Osama (2011) and genre works like the Campbell and Neukom prize winner Central Station (2016). He has also written comics (Adler, 2020) and children's books such as Candy (2018) and the forthcoming A Child's Book of the Future (2024). He is a former columnist for the Washington Post and a current honorary Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at the American International University in London.

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    • 4/5
      Four short stories by Lavie Tidhar, all fantastic and all placed somehow in the traditions of Hebrew mythology. Our main characters in these stories are the Rat (something as bizarre as a Jewish vampire), the Tzadik (formerly one of the righteous ones, now an immortal trouble-maker), and the Rabbi (a powerful mystic and fixer for those whose needs are beyond the mortal coil). The Heist - Rat, Tzadik, and Rabbi team together to break into a magically defended blood-bank. Transylvania Mission - Rat hunts Doctor Mengele's team of werewolf Nazis.Uganda - Rabbi recounts his involvement in Theodore Herzl's 1903 Uganda Proposal.The Dope Fiend - Tzadik assists a 1920s drug ring, unintentionally involved in occult transactions.These are some of Tidhar's earliest stories and, while not great, the inventiveness combined with the sense of humor shows great potential and is placing Tidhar firmly on my read-more-of list.