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Author Helene Wecker. (Sheldon Wecker)
September 26, 2026, 7:54 am
Golem and Jinni bid bittersweet goodbye in final book of gripping fantasy trilogy
In long-awaited ‘The Gates of Midnight,’ author Helene Wecker moves mystical action ahead to eventful 1930 and explores legacy of Jewish immigration and assimilation in America
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Helene Wecker (Sheldon Wecker)
July 31, 2021, 3:02 am
After long hiatus, author Helene Wecker resurrects fans’ beloved Golem and Jinni
With a mix of old and new characters, ‘The Hidden Palace’ advances the duo’s magic, heartbreak and love into early 20th century New York and Middle East
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Working on a building for Gulliver's Gate. (Courtesy)
April 6, 2017, 1:48 am
It’s a small world, after all: Israeli creates a tiny universe in Times Square
Conceived by retired IDF officer Eiran Gazit, a $40m. fantastical 1:87 scale environment opens its doors in New York
By Cathryn J. Prince
The cuneiform tablets used by Gilgamesh, and introduced by writer Shirley Graetz in her chapter book series (Courtesy Uriel Zohar)
January 26, 2017, 6:10 pm
Readers get headstart on book about Gilgamesh
Jerusalem author Shirley Graetz turns to crowdsourcing to fund young reader series
By Jessica Steinberg
Covers of 'Stalag' pornographic comic books from early 1960s Israel (Courtesy: Heymann Films)
November 17, 2016, 4:29 am
When Israel banned Nazi-inspired ‘Stalag’ porn
As the Knesset prepares a bill to ‘filter’ Internet pornography, a peek at the Jewish state’s 1963 show-down with Holocaust-infused comics
By Matt Lebovic
Role-playing fighters clashing at the Icon Festival in Tel Aviv, Oct. 18, 2016. (Courtesy of Icon Festival)
October 29, 2016, 11:50 am
Israeli geeks turn to sci-fi and fantasy to escape a sometimes harsh reality
Thousands attend annual Icon Festival in Tel Aviv for cosplaying and LARPing
By Andrew Tobin
Ilana C. Myer (Teitelbaum) reading from 'Last Song Before Night' at its book launch in October 2015 in the Red Room in New York (Jack Reichert)
October 25, 2016, 10:37 am
Seven-year odyssey puts Israeli-American writer on fantasy map
After crossing continents and traversing the world of Jewish Orthodoxy, Ilana Teitelbaum proved she wasn’t writing ditties with the feminist-tinged ‘Last Song Before Night,’ and now has a second track for the highly touted trilogy on the way
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Performer Joshua Rudy appears in King Richard's Faire as the master-at-arms in Carver, Massachusetts, September 24, 2016 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
October 17, 2016, 10:43 pm
For ‘Renaissance’ Jews, all the world’s a joust
From coast to coast, Jews fill the ranks of elaborate outdoor festival productions, finding connections between Judaism and their penchant for reenacting days of yore
By Matt Lebovic
Author Helen Maryles Shankman brings X-Men sensibilities to Holocaust horrors in Wlodawa, Poland. (courtesy)
May 27, 2016, 5:31 pm
Raised with miracle of parents’ survival, author writes magical Holocaust tales
With the X-Men and vampires as her influences, Helen Maryles Shankman brings ‘fabulist’ realism to Wlodawa, Poland
By Matt Lebovic
Proposed cover for "Zion's Fiction" by artist Avi Katz is an homage to a famous photograph of Theodor Herzl. (Courtesy)
October 12, 2014, 8:07 pm
From ‘Altneuland’ to science fiction nation
The Zion’s Fiction team has a vision: to create the first-ever English-language anthology of Israeli science fiction and fantasy
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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