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September 19, 2019

A Jewish Fantasy Writer’s Absent Zion

Guy Gavriel Kay created Devin Bar Garin, but couldn’t mention Ben-Gurion.

The Canadian Jewish fantasy writer Guy Gavriel Kay recently published his fourteenth novel. In an essay on Kay’s oeuvre, Michael Weingrad notes many Jewish themes and occasional Jewish characters. These perhaps appear most explicitly in two of his books, which, like several others, are set in fictionalized versions of historical settings:

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September 19, 2019

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    A Saudi counterattack on Iran could be more dangerous than an American one.

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  4. A Jewish Fantasy Writer’s Absent Zion

    Guy Gavriel Kay created Devin Bar Garin, but couldn’t mention Ben-Gurion.

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