While the Messiah tarries
Subtitle: stories
By: Melvin Jules Bukiet.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Co.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Jews -- United States -- Fiction.; Jewish fiction.
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Gematria; title: Landsmanshaft; title: The big metzia; title: The golden calf and the red heiffer; title: The Devil and the Dutchman; title: Old words for new; title: Postscript for a dead language; title: Himmler's chickens; title: The Library of Moloch.