Actually, what Chabon isn't revealing is that Rosenzweig’s Panties is Wallace Markfield’s second posthumous novel. The first is The Yiddish Policeman's Union, dictated by the master himself during a series of seances - on the Shabbes, hence the need for discretion.
Help! I can't find the novel on Amazon. How do I order it?
ReplyDeleteYou should be able to order it directly from the publisher Coward, McCann & Geoghegan.
ReplyDeleteBut who is that a photo of? Here is a photo of Wallace Markfield. What am I missing?
ReplyDeleteIf both Myers and Chabon liked the novel, there must be something amiss.
ReplyDeleteCan someone translate the name of the rabbi's temple for me? "Kesil Shel Iyar"? What does that mean?
ReplyDeleteK’sil, or sometimes Kh’sil, is a common word in the Hebrew Scriptures. See Psalm 92.7b, for example (92.6 in the King James Version).
ReplyDeleteIyar is the name of the month we are now in.
But we are in the month of Nisan right now.
ReplyDeleteRight you are. The name ought to be Temple Kesil Shel Nisan.
ReplyDeleteMy mistake.
April 1st almost always falls in the month of Nisan.
ReplyDeleteOnly a Jewish ignoramus would name a temple Kesil Shel Iyar. But what else would you expect from D. G. Myers?
ReplyDeleteActually, what Chabon isn't revealing is that Rosenzweig’s Panties is Wallace Markfield’s second posthumous novel. The first is The Yiddish Policeman's Union, dictated by the master himself during a series of seances - on the Shabbes, hence the need for discretion.
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