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<p><span>Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile </span><span>reaches beyond American fiction to reveal a spectrum of Jewish fantasy: Post-Holocaust Soviet tales; Yiddish science fiction from the 1980s; Mizrahi novels from Iran, Iraq, and Turkey; and new themes and subgenres from Brazil to Morocco. This essay collection explores Jewish speculative fiction from every continent.</span></p>

<p><span>Chapter 1. Jewish Speculative Fiction in Australia and New Zealand</span></p>
<p><span>Gillian Polack and Bettina Burger </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 2. The Wandering Messiah in Alejandro Jodorowsky's Imaginary Universes</span></p>
<p><span>Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 3. When Jews Ruled the Volga: Exploring the Novels of the Khazars</span></p>
<p><span>Steven B. Frankel </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 4. Kabbalist Rap: A Love Song for the Torah in Victoria Hanna’s Music Video </span><span>אורייתא</span></p>
<p><span>Katharina Hadassah Wendl</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 5. Djinn, Hauntings, and Double Consciousness: An Exploration of Mizrahi Magical Realism</span></p>
<p><span>Valerie Estelle Frankel </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 6. Alternate History and Jewish Anxiety in Philip Roth’s </span><span>The Plot Against America</span></p>
<p><span>Ilana Goldstein </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 7. Leybl Botwinik’s </span><span>Di Geheyme Shlikhes</span><span>: A Groundbreaking Yiddish Science-Fiction Novel</span></p>
<p><span>Stephen M. Cohen </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 8. Ancient Jewish Elements in 21st Century Alfredian Fanfiction</span></p>
<p><span>Martine Mussies</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 9. Free Will, Kabbalah, Human Nature, and Messiah: Chaim Cigan’s Time Cruise via Parallel Histories and Identities</span></p>
<p><span>Michaela Weiss </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 10. Contra Torrentem: Leo Perutz’s </span><span>By Night Under the Stone Bridge</span><span> and Central European Fantasy</span></p>
<p><span>Cameron Barrows </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 11. Motifs of Secrecy, the Hidden and the Unspoken in the Novels of Isaac Asimov and Stanislaw Lem</span></p>
<p><span>Julie A. Hawkins</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 12. Soviet Science Fiction of the 1960s and Jewishness: The Cases of Ilya Varshavsky and Gennady Gor</span></p>
<p><span>Marat Grinberg </span></p>
<p><span>Chaper 13. Seeking a Promised Land: Estrangement and Belonging in Queer Jewish Speculative Fiction</span></p>
<p><span>Akiva Hoffman </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 14. Why are Science Fiction Anthologies Ashkanormative?</span></p>
<p><span>Mara W. Cohen Ioannides and Valerie Estelle Frankel</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 15. Writing the Jewish Heroine’s Journey</span></p>
<p><span>Evonne Marzouk and Patti McCarthy </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 16. Teaching Jewish Speculative Fiction</span></p>
<p><span>Judy Klass</span></p>

<p><a></a><span>Valerie Estelle Frankel</span><span> teaches at Mission College and San Jose City College.</span><a></a></p>