Jacob and Esau Cohen are the closest of brothers. In fact, they’re lovers. A doctor tries to combine canine genes with those of Jews, to improve their chances of surviving a hostile world. A Talmudic scholar dates an escort. A scientist tries to develop the ‘God spot’ in the brains of his patients in hopes of creating a messiah.
A Jew-by-Choice navigates Jewish/Muslim relations during Pesach. A gay Lubavitcher dating a Catholic is attacked and left for dead but becomes a police officer in response. The Golem of Prague is really Rabbi Loew’s secret lover.
While some of the Jews in Townsend’s book are Orthodox, this collection of Jewish stories most certainly is not.
Daftar Isi
Tagging Along
A Life of Wind
Making the Messiah
Leather Jew
The Lizard of Oz
Jewish Dogs
Pronouncing the Apostrophe
Sue a Jew
The Tarot Reader
The Convert’s Mezuzah
Vampires of the Blood Atonement
The Golem of Rabbi Loew
Tentang Penulis
A climate crisis immigrant who relocated from New Orleans to Seattle in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Johnny Townsend wrote the first account of the Up Stairs Lounge fire, an attack on a French Quarter gay bar which killed 32 people in 1973. He was an associate producer for the documentary Upstairs Inferno, for the sci-fi film Time Helmet, and for the deaf gay short Flirting, with Possibilities. His books include Please Evacuate, Racism by Proxy, and Wake Up and Smell the Missionaries. His novel, Orgy at the STD Clinic, set entirely on public transit, details political extremism, climate upheaval, and anti-maskers in the midst of a pandemic.