ISBN: 0-88739-186-9
206 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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Planet of the Jews
Philip Graubart
Planet of the Jews is a story within a story. After all, when Judah Loeb, a New York comic book editor, receives a manuscript from a strange Hasidic couple, he thinks nothing of it. Until he reads it. Then, suddenly, Judah is caught up in an enchanting sci-fi fable of the future, a time when Jews, once again, are persecuted and driven not only out of their lands, but off Earth and onto a strange new world. Not only do the characters in this story (and its sequels) mirror Judah's life, but they provide him with material that becomes the best selling comic novels of all time.
What makes Planet of the Jews so fascinating is its unique format-not only do you read Judah's story, but you read the story. And not only is Judah's story interesting, but the plight of the thousands of Jews who must live and thrive so far away is unlike anything you've ever read.
Review: "It is as if Isaac Asimov, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Bernard Malamud had collaborated to create a futuristic novel as fantastic and ingenious as it is earthy and magical. But the magic comes from Philip Graubart, who is an intelligent, imaginative, and wonderfully idiosyncratic writer. Planet of the Jews is one of the most thoroughly original, provocative, and delightful novels I have read in years."
Jay Neugeboren
Author, The Stolen Jew and Imagining Robert
"...very inventive and funny. A wonderfully creative look at Jewish life."
-Julius Lester,
Author of And All our Wounds Forgiven
Bio: Philip Graubart is a writer and a rabbi living in Northampton, Mass. He received his BA from Northwestern, his MA from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He has published articles and short stories and his monthly column, syndicated by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, recently won a Jewish Journalists Association award for commentary. Planet of the Jews is his first novel.
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