Yossele: a tale in poems - Couverture souple

Krosinsky, Sari ; Reeves, Robert Arthur

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1456437232 ISBN 13 : 9781456437237

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

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In a re-imagining of the golem of Prague, the golem (a sort of mystical android) becomes self aware. As the golem wrestles with life, the rabbi who created him wrestles with God. In Medieval Europe a common accusation against Jews was that they kidnapped and murdered Christian children to use their blood in their rituals, particularly the preparation of unleavened bread at Passover. At the end of the sixteenth century in Prague (in several ways a tolerant and accepting city for Jews) this practice had arisen again, and the chief rabbi of the community, Rabbi L�v, created a golem to defend his people. A golem is unsentient and has no will of his own: only G-d can create a thinking, choosing spirit. We have imagined that something goes wrong with the complex creation process, and the creature becomes self-aware. His name was Yossele, a diminutive of Joseph.

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� propos de l'auteur

Sari Krosinsky's first book, "god-chaser," was published by CW Books. Ze publishes Fickle Muses, an online journal of mythic poetry and fiction. Ze received a B.A. in religious studies and M.A. in creative writing from the University of New Mexico. Ze lives in Albuquerque, N.M., with zir partner (Yossele co-author) and their cat. Robert Arthur Reeves has been writing poetry since 1965. His poetry has been published in The Chaffin Journal, The Homestead Review, The Blind Man’s Rainbow, Fulcrum, Adobe Walls, Permafrost, Poesia and Skidrow Penthouse, among others.

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