How does a nineteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town end up in a freezer in a suburban Memphis home at the end of the twentieth century? And what happens when a teenage boy thaws him out and miraculously brings him back to life?

"It's the late 1960s. The Pinch, once a thriving Jewish community centered on North Main Street in Memphis, has been reduced to a single tenant. Lenny Sklarew awaits the draft by peddling drugs and shelving books, until he learns he is a character in a book about the rise and fall of this very Pinch." --

A collection of Jewish stories, set in Europe and America, some presented with magic realism. Subjects include relations with Christians and conflict between religion and the secular.

Para el año 2000, las dictaduras que gobernaron los países del Cono Sur de América Latina -Argentina, Uruguay y Chile- en las décadas de 1970 y 1980 ya habían desaparecido. La democracia parecía consolidada, aunque aún hubiera de pasar por duras pruebas en la siguiente década. Este libro se centra en la memoria histórica, uno de los problemas más complejos que los países que sufrieron la violencia política en la región enfrentaron

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