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There were two short story collections you could look for, Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction and a sequel, More Wandering Stars. There was also a novella about Golems by Ted Chiang ("Seventy-Two Letters") that isn't explicitly Jewish but might make an interesting comparison piece.
You should read the book the Golem and the Jinni. It’s actually a really good book. A man asks a disgraced rabbi to make him a golem woman because he wants a wife and is having trouble getting one. Then they go to the US.
Well, in Hungarian the title is "Sorstalanság" which literally means "Fatelessness".
(fate=sors; -less=-talan; -ness=-ság)
However, in Hungarian, the word sounds okay, it's a pretty common structure, we have a lot of words similar to this.
>“Outside Of Fate”? “Without Fate”?
I would have sounded better, but the official English title of the book is Fatelessness.
I can see you've gotten help already, but if it's of any interest there's a great anthology of Yiddish folktales by Beatrice Weinreich which I love!
I'll attach an Amazon link if you want to look into it: https://www.amazon.com/Yiddish-Folktales-Pantheon-Folklore-Library/dp/0805210903
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The Palestinians and Arab world kind of did it to themselves, first by trying to genocidally exterminate the Jews in the 1940s and then continuously over the years with repeated terrorist attacks (did everyone forget about the PLO?), then the group in Gaza elected Hamas, a terrorist organization that has a desire to exterminate the Jews.
Ironically, if the Palestinians had just embraced the Jews back in the 1940s and offered to integrate with people that could bring superior culture, government, and a knowledge of science and technology with them, they would be 1000x better off today. Imagine where the Israelis and Palestinians would be if the billions (trillions?) of dollars spent on war over the decades had instead been spent on better things.
To open your mind to a different perspective on the Israeli/Palestinian history and to begin questioning the huge amount of biased anti-Israel propaganda, you should read Exodus and The Haj, excellent historical fiction novel that will expose you to a differing viewpoint.
That depends on what narrative you believe. You can find an alternate narrative in the historical fiction novels Exodus and The Haj by Leon Uris, which I find totally believable.
An alternative narrative is that the Jews occupied and purchased unused lands that had little agricultural value and made the land productive through blood, sweat, and tears. The Jews brought with them a knowledge of science and Western social values. In contrast, the Arabs living there were essentially primitive adherents of religious mysticism.
The Palestinians and the Arabs played this situation entirely wrong. Instead of trying to murder all of the Jews, they should have embraced them and invited them to introduce them to better forms of government and culture and work with them to improve their economies and quality of life. If all of the resources that have been spent on conflict had instead been spent on industry and modernization all of these people would have a much higher quality of life today.
> Name a physical place or object that is of extreme significance to you. For example...your home. > > > > Now how about I take it form you and give it to somebody else? Then put up a big fence around with armed guards so you can never return there.
But it's highly debatable whether the Palestinians were actually using or living in the specific areas the Jews settled and purchased, which was dead wasteland. The Jews made the land productive through hard work. The situation is much more complicated than a simplistic "They took their home". You should go read the historical fiction novels Exodus and The Haj to expose yourself to a different point of view.
I loved "Fatelessness" of Imre Kertész. (I knew him personally by chance. He died a short time ago.) https://www.amazon.com/Fatelessness-Imre-Kertesz/dp/1400078636 I wrote about it before it got the Nobel Price. http://sfsalvo.com/Lit/kozma7.htm#A Review of Imre Kertesz's Fateless
I do go to survivors and make interviews with them. Unfortunately not in English. Mostly they are in their 80s and 90s. Not all of them likes to talk about that. But some do. You are right it is very inspiring sometimes.
Freedland expresses Jewish fear of neutrality toward Nazi Germany. He says Lindbergh's America First movement wanted to
> make an accommodation with Hitler
meaning "don't attack a country which had not attacked the USA" (before December 1941). A better expression of this idea that Americans should fight for Jewish interests is Philip Roth's The Plot Against America.
I would say The Golem and the Jinni.https://www.amazon.com/Golem-Jinni-Novel-P-S/dp/0062110845/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469853610&sr=8-1&keywords=helen+wecker
Or The Magicians by Lev Grossman. https://www.amazon.com/Magicians-Novel-Trilogy/dp/0452296293/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1469853727&sr=8-2&keywords=the+magicians
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