Strange Kaddish: Tales You Won't Hear from Bubbie [Paperback]

Clifford Lawrence Meth (Editor), Ricia Mainhardt (Editor), Neil Gaiman (Author), Harlan Ellison (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 70 pages
• Publisher: Aardwolf Pub (May 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1888669012
• ISBN-13: 978-1888669015
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,708,133 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars hits close to home/Lubabs in space, April 17, 2002

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yitzchok (ny ny) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strange Kaddish: Tales You Won't Hear from Bubbie (Paperback)

This story, plain and simply, is about the lubavitch hasidic sect two thousand years in the future, how it has changed for the better and for the worse. For me the story I Geza really hit close to home.In addition to knowing the Lubavitch, Yeshiva system first hand, I also have attended the Rabinical College of America in Morrisstown N.J for 2 years and so I was able to understand many of the subtle jokes and charachters thrown into the story by Meth(many which relate with the Chabad residents of Morrisstown), who is himself a morrisstown resident.

I understood and related very much to the charachter of Pheobus a young BT yeshiva bochur who is starting to grow doubtful about the Lubavitch way of doing things as he grows more mature and starts taking things less for granted. However, I would not use this story to try and illistrate things that are wrong with the chabad movement, because it is totally innacurate of it's portrayal of the chabad Hasidic movement. Although i will admit Meth does bring home some very good points about some things, it doesn't mean that it is all true. I feel that he wrote it in a [bad] mood and didn't mean half of the things he said in the story. Still in all it is a good entertaining story (more so if you understand the puns). To end off, il leave you all with a word to the wise, "Dont take this story to seriously, it will only aggravate you if you do." So...whether you are a lubavitcher, misnaged, a plain yid or a goy =) . just sit back, relax and enjoy the ride.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ellison is always incredible, July 9, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Strange Kaddish: Tales You Won't Hear from Bubbie (Paperback)

So Harlan calls me and asks if I have time to do some research for a Hanukah story he's been asked to do by National Public Radio. Sure, I say, and I go to work, give him some stuff, and then *he* goes to work. The result--another Ellison masterpiece entitled "Go Toward The Light." I read it. It kills me. I call him back and ask if anyone has claimed it for an anthology. Nope, he says--it's yours. So I dust off "I, Gezheh" (the story that Lubavitchers wanted to murder me for writing) and make some phone calls and, well, it's STRANGE KADDISH. --Clifford Met

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ellison, Gaiman and Meth = Murderer's Row!, July 8, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Strange Kaddish: Tales You Won't Hear from Bubbie (Paperback)

When three of the best short-fiction writers come up to bat back-to-back like this, it just has to be good...and it it. Some new writers, too, and great choice of illustrations (especially the ones by Bill Messner-Loebs!). My only complaint is that the book was too short, but I'd recommend it highly