The Rabbi of Lud Satire and transcending the genres of

and transcending the genres of criticism

instead he creates a book that is about that failure

The Second Book won a leading literary prize for best book of short stories in Bosnia

revealing the reasons for his flight from Lisbon and his vague hopes for and nagging fears about what he might find in India

The Rabbi of Lud Satire and transcending the genres ofby Stanley Elkin Publication Date: 05 01 2001 ISBN: 9781564782700 Surrounded by cemeteries in the flatlands of New Jersey, the small town of Lud is sustained by the business of death. In fact, with no synagogue and no congregation, Rabbi Jerry Goldkorn has only one true responsibility: to preside over burial services for Jews who pass away in the surrounding cities. But after the Arctic misadventures that led him to Lud, he wouldn't want to live (or