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  • The Siren Song of Jacob Frank’s Daughter
    Barak A. Bassman
    In the late 18th century, the disgraced, false Polish Jewish Messiah Jacob Frank declared that the true Redeemer for whom Jews (and others) have longed and prayed must be a woman.  During his imprisonment in the fortress at Czestochowa, he anointed the first and only female Messiah in Jewish history, his own daughter Ewa.  Ewa Frank later inherited the leadership of her father’...
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    10,89 €

  • The Golem Bride
    Barak A. Bassman
    Eliyahu Baal Shem, a once renowned but now forgotten master of the Kabbalah, of Jewish mystical lore, had long given up on the making of golems.  He regretted the golem he had once made in his youth, and he had sworn off creating another one.  But then one day a stranger came to his house with a bizarre plea for help:  A Polish nobleman had fallen in love with an inanimate, lif...
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    10,75 €

  • The Descent of the Tzaddik
    Barak A. Bassman
    A lonely young man in Poland hundreds of years ago, living in a traditional Jewish shtetl, yearns for a deeper connection with his Creator and an escape from his mundane life.  He studies the esoteric wisdom of the mystical kabbalah, and then uses that knowledge to vault his soul out of his body on a magical journey to the World to Come and the Heavenly Court.  And when his sou...
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    8,49 €

  • The Mad Disciples of Jacob Frank
    Barak A. Bassman
    It is the early 1790s in a Poland on the verge of being partitioned into extinction by its greedy neighbors, with the Russian Empire in the lead.  The Jewish false messiah Jacob Frank has recently died.  Frank had led his followers in escaping persecution from the rabbinical leadership of the Jewish community by pretending to embrace Catholicism, all the while secretly adhering...
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    8,42 €

  • The Twisted Path of the Hidden Saint
    Barak A. Bassman
    On a late summer night in 18th century Poland, a Jewish wanderer enters a tavern in a small shtetl and tells a tale of his late master and teacher, Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the holy Baal Shem Tov.  And not just any tale:  This will be the tale of how the Baal Shem Tov once spent a long night in a remote forest hut with a lamed vovnik, one of the thirty-six hidden saints who, a...
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    8,46 €

  • The Starvation Dybbuk
    Barak A. Bassman
    Yehiel is a wealthy Jewish timber merchant in a shtetl in 18th century Poland, with a happy family at home, including a teenage daughter for whom he soon hopes to strike a fine marriage match.  But then one night she suddenly refuses to eat and starts to cut and scratch at her own skin.  Over the succeeding days and weeks, her behavior becomes ever more erratic and baffling.  T...
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    8,42 €

  • The Baal Shem Tov and the Heretic
    Barak A. Bassman
    In 1757, in Poland, followers of the false Jewish Messiah Jacob Frank have publicly denounced the Talmud and convinced the authorities to let them burn thousands of copies of the holiest Jewish texts.  One such disciple of the new movement undertakes a journey to confront his former teacher, the famed mystic and kabbalist Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the holy Baal Shem Tov, founde...
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    8,42 €

  • The Cruelty of the Fisher King
    Barak A. Bassman
    Sir Perceval of Wales, knight of the Round Table and liegeman of King Arthur, loses his way in the forest on one twilight eve and comes to a barren, rocky wasteland, where the very air he breathes is sickening.  There he meets the mysterious ruler of that land, the Fisher King, who suffers from a hideous and crippling wound that cannot be healed.  Spending the night in the Fish...
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    6,91 €

  • The Holy Sinner
    Barak A. Bassman / Barak ABassman
    Zalman, a poor and miserable Jewish apprentice blacksmith in a small grim town in 18th century Poland, believes that he has received the greatest miracle imaginable: the most beautiful and wealthy woman in his town, the young widow Raizel, inexplicably chooses him as her bridegroom. But after the wedding, she leads him into dark alleys of corruption and sin. Matters are only ma...
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    7,85 €

  • The Beheading Game
    Barak A. Bassman / Barak ABassman
    Sir Carados, a handsome and powerful young knight of King Arthur’s court, has spent his life effortlessly progressing from triumph to triumph until the day he foolishly accepts a challenge from a mysterious giant who has barged into Camelot’s Christmas celebration: to deliver an axe blow to the giant’s head now and then meekly submit to the giant’s return blow in exactly one ye...
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    7,79 €

  • The Emissary from Mezeritch
    Barak A. Bassman / Barak ABassman
    The year is 1770, and new mystical movements are sweeping across the Jewish communities of Poland and Ukraine. A traveling Jewish preacher arrives in a small town on the eve of Shabbat, eager to impart his new vision and strange practices, but the town’s Jews send him away in scorn and contempt. However, after the preacher returns to save the town’s children from a horrific pes...
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    6,91 €

  • The Vampire and The Wandering Jew
    Barak A Bassman
    Brother Nicholas, a monk in medieval Germany, found himself rejected and isolated:  scorned by the Jewish community who raised him because of his conversion to Christianity, and distrusted by his fellow churchmen as a former Jew, whose faith is always subject to doubt and suspicion. He finally flees to a remote castle, in a distant, impoverished land, to serve as the new confes...
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    11,36 €

  • The Death of the Wizard Merlin
    Barak A. Bassman / Barak ABassman
    The wizard Merlin plays a key role at the court of King Arthur in Logres–healer, seer, and wise counselor–but has always been an outsider, shunned for his physical ugliness and tenacious loyalty to the old pagan gods. Yet when the lovely Viviane firmly rejects his advances, he cannot let go of his longing and desire for her. In desperation, Merlin engages in increasingly self-d...
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    7,96 €

  • Necromancy of the Demon Maiden
    Barak A. Bassman / Barak ABassman
    In the late 17th-century, in Turkish-occupied southern Poland, a kabbalist faces vicious persecution from his fellow Jews because of his secret adherence to the teachings and practices of the disgraced false messiah, Sabbatai Zevi. Forced to take refuge with a dreamy and unstable Polish count in a nearby castle, the Jewish mystic is soon forced to summon a demon maiden to fulfi...
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    8,60 €

  • The Gifts of the Fairy Melusine
    B A Bassma / Barak A Bassman
    At the beginning of the First Crusade in the year 1096, bands of marauding Crusader knights attack and massacre Jewish communities across the Rhineland in Germany. Yet one of the victims, a wine merchant from Worms who had lost his wife and son, receives a second chance at life: a magical fairy named Melusine brings him back to life and offers him a way out of the travails of J...
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    8,51 €

  • The Last Confession of Joseph della Reina
    Barak A. Bassman / Barak ABassman
    Drawing upon ancient and medieval Jewish legends about the perils of trying to force the dawn of the Messianic Age, The Last Confession of Joseph della Reina tells the story of a dreamy, idealistic young Jewish man in medieval Spain who becomes convinced that, as recounted in the Talmud, the Messiah lies waiting among the beggars at the gates of Rome.  Horrified by the world’s ...
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    8,47 €

  • The Twilight of the Magical Siren
    Barak A. Bassman / Barak ABassman
    The Twilight of the Magical Siren is the tale of Judah, a young Jewish man, adrift, living during the Western Roman Empire in the fourth century CE, a time when a newly triumphant Christianity overcame and marginalized the cults of the old pagan gods. One evening Judah meets an ancient goddess abandoned by this newly Christianized Empire, a beautiful siren with a melancholy son...
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    8,76 €

  • King Solomon and Ashmedai
    Barak A. Bassman / Barak ABassman
    Drawing from the extensive tradition of medieval Jewish folklore surrounding the Biblical King Solomon, King Solomon and Ashmedai: A Wisdom Tale recounts the fall and restoration of the legendary king of Israel.  In order to build the Temple in Jerusalem, King Solomon is forced to entrap the demon king Ashmedai to obtain the magical stone-cutting worm known as the shamir.  But ...
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    7,85 €

  • Repentance
    Barak A. Bassman / Barak ABassman
    Dovid was a poor man down on his luck in a 17th century Polish Jewish world traumatized by the pogroms of the Cossack chieftain Chmielnicki and reeling from the tragedy of the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi. Eking out a meager existence reading psalms for the sick and recently deceased, his prospects were grim. But then a wealthy stranger comes to town and promises to change Dov...
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    11,27 €

  • Elegy of the Minotaur
    Barak A. Bassman / Barak ABassman
    The Minotaur is one of the most fearsome monsters in the ancient Greek imagination: the half human, half bull child of Queen Pasiphae of Crete, who is locked away in a mysterious and treacherous maze, beneath the royal palace of Crete, called the Labyrinth. There he feasts on the flesh of the youths and virgins of Athens who are sacrificed to him until the great Athenian hero...
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    11,12 €