By Simone Zelitch January 5th, 2021 A few weeks ago, I was part of a Hanukkah reading at my local…
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Reading The Plague in the Age of Social Distancing— By Simone Zelitch
By Simone Zelitch Originally posted on her blog HERE March 19th, 2020 I’ve taught The Plague to my community college…
Imagining a Europe Made Whole— Judenstaat in The Battle Ground
By John FosterThe Battle Ground10 January 2020 Perhaps it is a sign of the wounds inflicted by National Socialism that…
Mutual Aid
By Simone ZelitchNovember 17th, 2019 I have no record of my first letter to Ursula K. Le Guin. I’ve kept…
What If There Had Been No Balfour Declaration?
By Simone ZelitchDecember 9th, 2017 We’re living in an alternative-history moment. Given the current political climate, it’s no coincidence that…
My novel Judenstaat is Orwell Fan Fiction
By Simone ZelitchJune 8th, 2016 My hope for Judenstaat that it would find readers. It’s an alternative history about a…
Is Alternative History Science Fiction?
By Simone ZelitchJune 11th, 2016 Around three weeks ago, I presented my new novel Judenstaat to over 200 members of…
Judenstaat’s beginnings
By Simone Zelitch One morning, I was lying in bed with my husband, and I said, “What if a Jewish…
What if the Jewish State Had Been Created in East Germany?
In Simone Zelitch’s imaginary Judenstaat, the flag resembles Auschwitz uniforms, German beats Yiddish, and the Soviets – unsurprisingly – are…
10 Overlooked Books By Women in 2016
You Should Read These, Please By Bethanne PatrickLithubDecember 20th, 2016 But wait! There’s more alternate history! And it’s really good.…