The Chorister and Other Jewish Stories

What is love? An intriguing question, but maybe its one thats virtually impossible to answer. Perhaps its futile for our intellects even to attempt a credible response. Loves a deep and powerful emotion; its not intrinsically amenable to cold, analytical examination. And its quintessence doesnt lend itself readily to a perfect, logical and universal definition. Ultimately, it could be that loves mysterious, preoccupying intensity may be recognised and understood only when its actually and individually experienced. Many of the stories in this anthology seek to touch aspects of loves elusive nature. They embrace not only romantic passion but also other, more prosaic manifestations of that ubiquitous yet amorphous sentiments almost mystical quality. Love can be true, pure, profound, strong, eternal Divine. Though love can be unrequited, ephemeral, paradoxical, forbidden, dangerous fatal. Despite potential philosophical drawbacks, the reader may be moved by these tales to revisit some very private and personal notions of loves diverse facets. As with his book The Shtetl and other Jewish stories, the author senses that hes writing as a conduit for the thoughts and feelings of the characters that walk through these pages. See more