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Barak a Bassman
It is the early 1790s in a Poland on the verge of being partitioned into extinction by its greedy neighbors, with the Russian Empire in the lead. The Jewish false…
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The Hasidic Rebbe believed he was ready to perform a great miracle and to save a wayward, wandering soul. But that was before Zalman rebuffed the holy tzaddik’s aid and…
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"The stability of King Arthur's realm is thrown into doubt when a mad knight claims Queen Guinevere is his true bride and kidnaps her from Camelot. In the struggles that…
The wizard Merlin plays a key role at the court of King Arthur in Logres-healer, seer, and wise counselor-but has always been an outsider, shunned for his physical ugliness and…
Brother Nicholas takes a post in a remote castle as confessor to an aristocratic lady who has lived as a recluse for decades-yet remained eternally young and beautiful. There he…
In 1770, a traveling Jewish preacher with vast mystical powers descends upon a synagogue in a small Polish town. While his bizarre customs and doctrines cause him to be scorned…
Sir Carados, a handsome and powerful young knight of King Arthur’s court, has spent his life effortlessly progressing from triumph to triumph until the day he foolishly accepts a challenge…
"Zalman, a poor Jewish blacksmith in 18th century Poland, believes he has received a miracle: the most beautiful and wealthy woman in his town chooses him as her bridegroom. But…
On a late summer night in 18th century Poland, a Jewish wanderer enters a tavern in a small shtetl and tells a tale of his late master and teacher, Rabbi…
Dovid was a poor man down on his luck in a 17th century Polish Jewish world traumatized by the pogroms of the Cossack chieftain Chmielnicki and reeling from the tragedy…
Drawing upon ancient and medieval Jewish legends about the perils of trying to force the dawn of the Messianic Age, The Last Confession of Joseph della Reina tells the story…
Sir Perceval of Wales, knight of the Round Table and liegeman of King Arthur, loses his way in the forest on one twilight eve and comes to a barren, rocky…
Drawing from the extensive tradition of medieval Jewish folklore surrounding the Biblical King Solomon, King Solomon and Ashmedai: A Wisdom Tale recounts the fall and restoration of the legendary king…
At the beginning of the First Crusade in the year 1096, bands of marauding Crusader knights attack and massacre Jewish communities across the Rhineland in Germany. Yet one of the…
The Minotaur is one of the most fearsome monsters in the ancient Greek imagination: the half human, half bull child of Queen Pasiphae of Crete, who is locked away in…
Summoned to return to a castle in remote southern Poland from which he fled decades before, a 17th-century Jewish mystic and heretic, an adherent of the false messiah, Sabbatai Zevi…
The Twilight of the Magical Siren is the tale of Judah, a young Jewish man, adrift, living during the Western Roman Empire in the fourth century CE, a time when…
Yehiel is a wealthy Jewish timber merchant in a shtetl in 18th century Poland, with a happy family at home, including a teenage daughter for whom he soon hopes to…
In 1757, in Poland, followers of the false Jewish Messiah Jacob Frank have publicly denounced the Talmud and convinced the authorities to let them burn thousands of copies of the…
