The author of historical novels ranging in setting from medieval England, to World War II Budapest, to the Jim Crow American South, Simone Zelitch traveled to former East Germany and Israel/Palestine and studied at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute while writing Judenstaat. She teaches at Community College of Philadelphia, and writes in the summer, mostly. For more information about the author and her work, go to www.simonezelitch.com
Judenstaat
SKU: 9781629637136
Author: Simone Zelitch
Publisher: PM Press/ Spectacular Fiction
ISBN: 9781629637136
Published: 1/2020
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Page count: 336
Subjects: Science Fiction/Alternate History
Praise
“Judenstaat uses the technique of alternate history to offer
biting commentary on modern Israel, on the post–Cold War era in which
we live, and on religion and nationhood.”
—Cory Doctorow, coeditor of Boing Boing and author of Little Brother
“The glory of Simone Zelitch’s page-turning alternate history is the
uncanny precision with which she has deftly transformed the threads of
actual events into the stunning new fabric of her novel.”
—BookPage
“Zelitch has had the courage, the wit, and the skill to imagine an alternate history of the Jews of Europe after World War II.”
—John Crowley, World Fantasy Award–winning author of Little, Big
“With wit and grace, Simone Zelitch draws the collective grief of the
generations living in the shadow of the Holocaust. Part mystery, part
ghost story, her smart, politically savvy alternative history explores
the growth of a nation and the secrets of the major players involved.”
—Kit Reed, author of Where
“Israel in Europe! What a rich, provocative idea—and what a writer to
take it on, with the imagination, heart, and depth it deserves.”
—Terry Bisson, author of Any Day Now
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Reviews
- Imagining a Europe Made Whole— Judenstaat in The Battle Ground
- What if the Jewish State Had Been Created in East Germany?
- 10 Overlooked Books By Women in 2016
- Judenstaat in Reading the End
- Judenstaat in Publishers Weekly
- Counterfactual, counterhistory, counter memory
- The end of Zionism?
- Judenstaat: A Review in Mystery People
- After the Holocaust, A Jewish State in Saxony
- Judenstaat in the New York Times
- Judenstaat on My Jewish Books
- Three new novels feature alternate history of reimagined 20th-century Jewish history
- Same as it never was
- “Everyone Believes in Justice. What Else is There to Believe In?” Judenstaat by Simone Zelitch
- Judenstaat Is a Striking Vision of a World Without an Israel
- Judenstaat in Shelf Awareness
- Judenstaat: an alternate history in which a Jewish state is created in east Germany in 1948
- Judenstaat in BookPage
- Judenstaat—in the Jewish Book Council
- Judenstaat—A Kirkus Review