"A terrific anthology, a revelations of new writers, bright and vivid as a bunch of flowers. Anyone who wants to know what's going on in the world of Jewish letters should pay very close attention to With signs and wonders."
Susan Dworkin, author of Stolen Goods and The Book of Candy
"A deliciously multifaceted journey into alternative realities, this anthology proves that no obstacle -neither the prohibition against idolatry nor an iitinerant life always on the verge of the unknown- ever stopped Jews from becoming inveterate dreamers. Jaffe has the right editorial pitch: he sees literature globally. His selections display the inquisiteveness of the rabbnical mind and the compassion of the securalism."
Ilan Stavans
"With Sings and wonders is rich with intriguing tales. For an American audience accustomed primarily to the East European tradition, the book provides exposure to the multicultural reality of contemporary Jewish literature, Magical tales, folkloric revisions and historical revisitations by American, Israeli, South American, Sephardi, and Ashkenazi men and women fill this volume's pages.
The best stories seamlessly fuse the details of Jewish life and the fabulist'sexperiments in form, style and subject. And anthology to be savored by scholars and lay readers alike, it should stand on the shelf alongside the new crop of fabulist Jewish novels, Melvin Bukiet's After, Ruth Knafo Setton's The Road to Fez, Cynthia Ozick's The Puttermesser Papers amog them. As these works insist, the Jewish literary tradition can be continously revised and renewed."
Diane Matza, Editor of Sephardic-American Voices
