WEISS, Michaela. Free Will, Kabbalah, Human Nature, and Messiah: Chaim Cigan’s Time Cruise via Parallel Histories and Identities. In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile. 1st ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023, p. 137-153. Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy. ISBN 978-1-6669-2660-6.
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Original name Free Will, Kabbalah, Human Nature, and Messiah: Chaim Cigan’s Time Cruise via Parallel Histories and Identities
Authors WEISS, Michaela (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition 1. vyd. Lanham, Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile, p. 137-153, 17 pp. Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2023.
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Other information
Original language English
Type of outcome Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study 60206 Specific literatures
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
RIV identification code RIV/47813059:19240/23:A0001151
Organization unit Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
ISBN 978-1-6669-2660-6
Keywords in English Czechoslovak Jewish Fantasy; Parallel Histories; Jewish Science Fiction; Hyperspace in fiction; Parralel identities
Tags SGS12020, ÚCJ
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: doc. PhDr. Michaela Weiss, Ph.D., učo 48912. Changed: 26/1/2024 06:00.
Abstract
The paper discusses the representation of Jewish identity and history in the Communist Eastern European space in Chaim Cigan’s trilogy In the Middle of Nowhere (2014-2016). The novels offer a unique fusion of Cabala, fantasy, and science fiction, featuring parallel and alternative histories, time travel, aliens, and Greek mythology. Despite the popular and grotesque, genre-bending form, Chaim Cigan (a pen name of Karol Sidon, the Czech Chief Rabbi) presents a complex image of Jewish tradition and poses serious questions concerning the individual and collective identity and responsibility, as well as visions and (alternative) versions of Eastern European history, ranging from the Exodus to a 21st century military attack on the still existing Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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