WARNING! MAJOR PLOT SPOILERS DISCUSSED BELOW
Sharon Shinn's Samaria Series
Jehovah/Jovah: When faith and science collide
The Ways of the Edori: a look at the Jewish diaspora and the nomadic lifestyles of the Jewish people
Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver
Rumpelstiltskin has always been a problematic and fairy tale absolutely rift with Antisemitism...child stealing/eating stolen babies...In Naomi Novik's retelling of Rumplestiltskin, she turns the entire fairy tale on its head...instead of antagonist Rumpelstiltskin being Jewish...protagonist is a the daughter of a Jewish moneylender.
History of the Jews in Lithuania
Jewish moneylenders in medieval Europe:
Usury banned by Christian tenet...and therefore was one of the few occupations opened to the Jewish people
When it can be Kosher to break the Sabbath: Pikuach nefesh
Patricia Briggs' The Price
Brandon Sanderson's Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell
Consequences of Sabbath Desecration in The Forests of Hell:
Cassandra Clare's Immortal Instruments series
Simon Lewis: Can you turn into an undead vampire and still remain Jewish?
Lilith: Mother of Demons or Humankind's First Feminist? Lilith came before Eve, refused to be subordinate to Adam...
Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel series
Yeshuites:
Elua and his angel companions: Love As Thou Wilt
Patricia Brigg's Mercedes Thompson series
The classic narrative of The Golem of Prague in Silence Fallen:
Square's Final Fantasy VII
Jenova:
Cetra:
The Promised Land:
Lifestream:
Sephiroth/Sefirot:
Tifa/Tifereth:
Recommendations for further suggested reading:
Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni
Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana
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