Jewish Noir Evening | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Please join Green Apple Books in celebrating Jewish Noir, in the Granny Smith Room at the main store on Clement. On-hand will be an all-star cast of contributors, including Summer Brenner, Michael J. Cooper, Steven Wishnia, Melanie Dante, Wendy Hornsby, Stephen Jay Schwartz, Eddie Muller, and editor Kenneth Wishnia.

Jewish Noir is a unique collection of new stories by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors such as Marge Piercy, Harlan Ellison, S.J. Rozan, Nancy Richler, Moe Prager (Reed Farrel Coleman), Wendy Hornsby, Charles Ardai, and Kenneth Wishnia. The stories explore such issues as the Holocaust and its long-term effects on subsequent generations, anti-Semitism in the mid- and late-twentieth-century United States, and the dark side of the Diaspora (the decline of revolutionary fervor, the passing of generations, the Golden Ghetto, etc.) The stories in this collection also include many “teachable moments” about the history of prejudice, and the contradictions of ethnic identity and assimilation into American society.

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