Edward Einhorn blends absurdist humor with philosophy in these critically acclaimed plays.
Golem Stories retells the legend of a clay man in 16th century Prague. Rabbi Loew creates a Golem to defend the Jews, but this Golem seems more interested in listening to the Rebbetsin's stories and falling in love with the Rabbi's daughter. Is he the reincarnated spirit of her murdered lover? Or does his childlike façade hide the face of a demon?
In The Living Methuselah, the world's oldest man has lived through the Flood, the Plague, Sodom and Gomorrah, Pompeii, and his own extremely poor judgment, thanks to his wife Serach, the world's oldest woman. Now age and a poor health regimen have caught up with him, and the doctor tells him he won't make it past the end of the play. Afflicted with every disease known to man, Methuselah fights on, flashing back in his delirium to former disasters and fantasizing about having handmaidens. Will he survive? It ain't necessarily so.
Antonio says that Shylock was a capitalist. Jessica says that he was a Freudian nightmare. Tubal says he was a good Jew. Whom is Jacob Levy to believe? Perhaps Hamlet can guide him. Although this Hamlet seems to be a woman. In A Shylock, a mild mannered professor is taken on a tour of Shakespeare's Venice, as he tries to find his own answer to Shylock's legacy.
And in One-Eyed Moses and the Churning Red Sea, Rabbi Tzipporah Finestein is having dreams that Moses is a pirate captain, battling Pharaoh on the high seas. Are they nightmares, or more? Two congregants may be the key to an answer.
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"Golem Stories" is a play gravid with emotional turmoil. Edward Einhorn has ingeniously applied just the right dramatic pressure in all the right places to pull on the heartstrings of the multitudes, whether the play is watched in full performance regalia or simply read–-the mark of a true storyteller.
—FantasyNovel Review.com
