Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven : Essential

This collection of Avram Davidson's complete Jewish stories dates from the author's experiences during World War II to his untimely death in 1993. It includes gems like The Golem, Nephillim, The Fisherman...A Tashlich Legend, plus the never-before published stories Everybody Has Somebody In Heaven and The Irregular Union Of Mendel And Esther Slonim.

A symposium of some of the greatest living science fiction writers including Peter Beagle, Carol Carr, Lisa Goldstein, Barry Malzburg, and others pay homage to Avram. They reveal their own stories about this eclectic, untamable, brilliant writer.

An Angry Celebration

9

(17)

Jack Dann

Foreword

17

(4)

Grania Davidson Davis

The Golem

Avram Davidson's most beloved story

21

(5)

Nephilim

26

(3)

Dan Cohen

29

(4)

Yochanan ben Zakkai

33

(4)

The Land of Sinim

37

(5)

The Countenance of the Priest

42

(5)

The Waters of Eden

47

(2)

Who Knoweth Five?

49

(6)

Rediscovery

55

(10)

The Fisherman...A Tashlich Legend

65

(4)

Of Making Many Books

69

(8)

Caphtor and Other Places

77

(10)

A Song of Degrees

87

(6)

The Various Jews Of Israel or Six Sketches of Israel

93

(13)

In Israel's Green Pastures

106

(13)

The Tomb of Jethro

119

(5)

On the Horizon

124

(4)

The Ascalon Light

128

(14)

``Oh, Avram, Avram, What a wonder you were!''

Robert Silverberg

THE AVRAM DAVIDSON SYMPOSIUM

Who's Who

142

(2)

Jack Dann

Avram And G-d

144

(3)

Peter S. Beagle

Dinner (Almost) With The Davidsons

147

(2)

Richard A. Lupoff

Jewish Magic And A Jewish Magician

149

(2)

Lisa Goldstein

``Love From Bubby, Only Be Well''

151

(3)

Carol Carr

The Jewish Condition Is The Human Condition

154

(4)

Barry N. Malzberg

Goslin Day

158

(6)

Dr. Morris Goldpepper Returns

164

(14)

The Irregular Union of Mendel and Esther Slonim

178

(16)

Who is Ethel Schnurr?

194

(9)

On the Right is Michael (newly discovered)

203

(5)

Shemiras Shabbos

208

(2)

The Crown Jewels of Jerusalem or The Tell-Tale Head

210

(31)

From A Letter To The Kleins (unpublished play)

241

(5)

The Metaphysical Force

246

(15)

Stand-alone chapters from and unfinished novel:

Tanta Sora Rifka

261

(4)

Everybody Has Somebody In Heaven

265

(6)

A BIOGRAPHY OF AVRAM DAVIDSON

Water From A Deep Well

271

Eileen Gunn

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Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven : Essential Jewish Tales of the Spirit

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