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Jews must deal with the past, Dann
deal with being a stranger, and an
said.
unwanted stranger, in the world?"
"Unless people and the world
Dann asked rhetorically. "These sto-
change
profoundly, these stories will
ries enable us to look at ourselves and
be
relevant
in another 50 years,"
the world around us in a different
Dann said, adding that he may
way."
decide to edit a third collection of
That is a popular device of science
the stories.
fiction, he explained. The use of the
Dann, who has been an observant,
fantastic to express where we stand in
kash'rut-keeping
the world and our situa-
Orthodox Jew and a
tion has been used by
non-observant, cul-
Jews since talmudic
tural Jew in his past,
days. Science fiction
said he hoped the
also allows writers to
stories he gathered
extrapolate possible
can make Jews take
futures and use them to
another look at some
write about what might
controversial issues.
be, he said.
"You can laugh your
"When we remove Ja
way
through them,
controversial or painful
but
they
are very
issue from its modern
uncomfortable sto-
context], we can look at
ries," Dann said.
it differently," Dann
And no one is
said. "It's like seeing it
spared
in Isaac's Asi-
with different eyes."
"Unto
story,
mov's
Chaim Waxman, a
the
Fourth
Genera-
professor of sociology at The late Isaac Asimov: "In m
tion." It tells of Sam
Rutgers University,
first science fiction novel, 'Pe _
Marten who has
agrees. He said the sto-
ble in the Sky,' ... one of my
trouble concentrat-
chief characters was named
ries "[can] present an
ing on a business
Joseph Schwartz. I didn't come
interesting way of
right out and say he was Jewish, lunch while obsessed
exploring [an issue] so
with differing ways
but I've never found anyone
people [can] look at it
who
thought
he
wasn't."
(From
to spell Lewkowitz,
with cooler heads.
the
introduction
to
"Wandering
Levkovich,
a
Whether they come to
Stars')
Lafkowitz, etc.
different conclusion is
It is especially
uncertain."
interesting in light of the now-
Dann's stories also capture the
deceased Asimov's introduction to the
language and rhythm of Yiddishkeit,
book. In it, he explains that he is a
as in "On Venus, Have We Got a
non-observant Jew, though he was
Rabbi," which addresses the hot-
born in a Russian shtetl and grew up
button issue of "who is a Jew?" It
in Brooklyn. However, he points out
tells of a rabbi who must decide
that he never changed his Jewish
whether aliens who look like brown
sounding name when it would have
pillows are Jews and able to be vot-
been more convenient to do so.
ing delegates to the Neo-Zionist
Asimov writes: "The reason I am
Congress.
writing this introduction is that,
The collection provides a combi-
despite all my infidel ways and
nation and a contrast of the old, the
beliefs, I am Jewish enough."
modern and the future. It's modern-
American Jewry, Dann said. It is the
"Jewish Science Fiction" is a short-
way writers combined all three that
story
competition open to non-
classic,"
made the book "an instant
published authors writing for
he said. Now Dann and Jewish Lights
middle-grade readers (ages 8-12).
are in negotiations to reprint the
Sponsored by the Association of
sequel, More Wandering Stars.
Jewish Libraries in partnership
Dann himself authored a story
with Pitspopany Press, the corn:
titled "Camps" in the latter book. It
petition carries a top prize of
tells the story of a boy in a hospital
$1,000. Manuscripts must be
who dreams he is in a Holocaust con-
postmarked by Feb. 1, 1999;
centration camp. As the boy lies in
winners will be notified by May
his sick bed, it becomes apparent that
15. For rules of submission,
his recuperation is directly linked to
write: Hazel Karp, 880 Somerset
whether he survives the camp.
Dr. N.W, Atlanta, GA 30327.
It is a metaphor for the impor-
tance of history and that to survive,

