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A fresh look at Jewish folktales---wise, witty, hilarious
After finishing school in New York, Rabbi Harvey traveled west in search of adventure and, hopefully, work as a rabbi. His journey took him to Elk Spring, Colorado, a small town in the Rocky Mountains. When he managed to outwit the ruthless gang that had been ruling Elk Spring, the people invited Harvey to stay on as the town's rabbi. In Harvey's adventures in Elk Spring, he settles disputes, tricks criminals into confessing, and offers unsolicited bits of Talmudic insight and Hasidic wisdom. Each story presents Harvey with a unique challenge--from convincing a child that he is not actually a chicken, to retrieving stolen money from a sweet-faced bubbe gone bad. Like any good collection of Jewish folktales, these stories contain layers of humor and timeless wisdom that will entertain, teach and, especially, make you laugh.
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Kimberly Barron
reviewed The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Wisdom and Wit in the Wild West on March 08, 2016 The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Wisdom and Wit in the Wild West
An American Western retelling of a bunch of Jewish folktales, set in Elk Spring, Colorado, and featuring the kind of "but what if everyone in [not a traditionally Jewish-dominated setting] were Jewish?" shenanigans that I do in my fantasy novels. I like this kind of gimmick because I like it when we get to be in things. Not just shtetl-things or Shoah things or New York things. Fantasy, westerns, sci-fi, other parts of our history…
As an example: you know the old gag about outlaws taking over a saloon, intimidating all the lawful residents of the town, and then the good guy/sheriff/whoever bursts in and there's silence, even from the out-of-tune piano? In this book, the leader of the criminals who have taken over the town is at the bar telling a joke, and Rabbi Harvey bursts in and beats him to the punchline. Shock; gasp. The same story also has a matzo=cardboard joke, which as you know from "Aviva and the Aliens" in Tales from Outer Lands is always a portkey to my heart. :P
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