While the Messiah Tarries: Stories
by By Bukiet, Melvin Jules
Category: Fiction , Short Stories (single author)

Combining history, fable, theology, and myth, these nine stories, by turns magical and mundane, comic and tragic, are remarkable for the breadth of their concerns and the depth of their vision.Melvin Bukiet chronicles the lives of Jews in America, past and present, in stories that are at once contemporary and timeless.