Criminal Kabbalah: An Intriguing Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction
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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Book details
- Author
- Lawrence Raphael
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
Fiction › Mystery & Detective - ISBN-13
- 9781580231091 (Paperback)9781683360193 (Hardcover)
About the author
LAWRENCE W. RAPHAEL was a Reform rabbi, editor, and scholar who edited two anthologies of Jewish mystery fiction: Criminal Kabbalah and Mystery Midrash.
Raphael was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in 1974 and earned a Ph.D. in higher education and leadership from New York University in 1990. He served as the ninth Senior Rabbi of Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco from 2003 to 2016, and previously as the first Director of the Department of Adult Jewish Growth at the Union of American Hebrew Congregations from 1996 to 2003. He also wrote articles on Jewish identity in detective fiction.
Raphael died on March 17, 2019, in San Francisco.