When Miriam discovers the big city, she wants to find her spot in the action. She brought her beloved lute with her, but playing music feels insufficient. An unexpected friend teaches her to be a camel driver and opens up her world. But nothing ever stays the same. Miriam has to go further to search for what she needs. Must she in fact become a slave to have security? And how can she meet others' demands for camel drives, find time for her lute and stay true to herself? Answers can be very hard to find, and even harder to accept.

A fantastic adventure down the Nile from the bestselling author of Through Wolf's Eyes

Roman Centurion Gaius Julius Comminus struggles to fulfill his duty against a madman who haunts the roads of Zion, bent on the murder and plunder of Roman citizens. Complicating the investigation is the political intrigue of the times spawned by the ministry of a young rabbi from Nazareth.

Selected from Australian short stories quarterly to celebrate the fiftieth issue.

A Knight at the Opera examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannh user played in Jewish cultural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book analyzes how three of the greatest Jewish thinkers of that era, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Herzl, and I. L. Peretz, used this central myth of Germany to strengthen Jewish culture and to attack anti-Semitism. Readers will see how Tannh user evolves from a medieval knight to Peretz's pious Jewish scholar in the Land of Israel. The book also discusses how the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, was so inspired by Wagner's opera that he wrote The Jewish State while attending performances of it. A Knight at the Opera uses Tannh user as a way to examine the changing relationship between Jews and the broader world during the advent of the modern era, and to question if any art, even that of a prominent anti-Semite, should be considered taboo.

Explores how Mary has been represented in theology, art, music, and literature throughout the ages