
Writer of Fiction & Non-Fiction
NON-FICTION
Erased from Tradition: the Maiden of Ludmir, in The Montreal Review, March 2013
Guest Blogger in Superstition Review, Fall 2012, December 2012
A Regional Christ: The Folk Saint Gaucho Gil in The Montreal Review February 2012
Mummy in the Bush: Old and New Islam in Gambia, in The Montreal Review, May 2011
The Other Zions: The Lost History of Jewish Nations was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2010
Two articles on 'syncretism' and 'secular' were published in the Encyclopedia of Identity, Sage Publications, June 2010
Religious Syncretism was published by SCM Canterbury in 2006
FICTION
Forthcoming: "The Sad Hungarian" spring 2014, Jewish Fiction .Net Issue 13
Stickman Review "Searching for Mrs. Yellow" (online) Vol. 11, No. 2, December 2012
"The Incorrupt Body of Carlo Busso" in The Million Writers Award: The Best New Online Voices, as a trade paperback and ebook, June 2012
Per Contra "King David's Trees," (online) Issue 23, Spring 2012
Superstition Review "Grow, Grow," (online) Issue 8, December 2011
Forge "By The Hudson," (online) July 2011
Pif "The Cleansing of Abu Salam" (online) May 2011
The Montreal Review "Between the Book and Shapiro" (online) April 2011
The Literary Review," Avram's Vineyard" (bound), 2010
Eclectica, "The Incorrupt Body of Carlo Busso" (online), 2010
Segue, "Not My City, Not My People" (online), 2009
ARCH, "Memorial Year" (online), 2009
The MacGuffin, "Those Who Go Down" (bound), 2008
Our
Stories, "And Moses Made a Serpent of Brass" (online), 2008
Also included in Best
of Our Stories, Volume II (bound), 2009
AWARDS
Grow, Grow is a Notable Story for 2011, The Million Writers Award in storySouth, May 2012.
The Incorrput Body of Carlo Busso is the runner up in 2011 Million Writers Award in storySouth, July 2011
Encyclopedia of Identity, winner of ALA "Outstanding Reference Source" award, January 2011
OTHER WORKS
See the chapter headings and a few pages of my novel The Land Before You. This novel is available for review.
"The Torah Sutras," available for review.
"Great Tradition, Little Tradition: Popular Religion in the East and West" (in progress).
Contact: em75@cornell.edu
SELECTED WRITINGS
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