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JEWS ON THE MOON (THE FOUR BOOKS OF JEWS ON THE MOON Book 1) Kindle Edition

3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

Newman Fears, the last Jew on Earth, crash-lands on the dark side of the Moon. For its survival, he is asked to travel the Universe to the Key to the Mystery of the Jews.

The Key is one thing. Even more importantly, what is the Mystery?

To Newman,the Universe proves to be far weirder, far whackier, and the children of Israel far stranger than anything he could have imagined.

JEWS ON THE MOON is also an autobiography.

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About the Author

Stephen Geller is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and professor who has lived a third of his life in Rome and Paris, and who now happily inhabits Savannah, Georgia, teaching English at Savannah College of Art and Design. Geller has adapted works for the screen from novels by Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, John Kennedy Toole, Tom Robbins, Anne Rice. His screenplay of SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE helped win the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as the First Hugo Award in Film. Among his many writing awards, he is most proud of the Silver Bear Award, for Best International Miniseries, for WARBURG: A MAN OF INFLUENCE. Geller has also directed his own plays and screenplays, as an independent in film and theater. He is a member of the Screenwriting Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as an Emeritus of the Writer's Guild of America. He is married, with three daughters: a graphics designer, a poet/teacher, and a ballerina. His wife does all of that - and even more!

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008OWGFSW
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kiki Firefly Press (July 24, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 24, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 537 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1482638622
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2015
    This is a very funny book. I was unaware that it is possible to fart wistfully, but I deem it salubrious and intend to cultivate the practice henceforth.

    This is a very sad book. I found it painful to be reminded of how so many performing Jews have thought it professionally expedient to goyify their names in order to gain acceptance by an alien culture that values them for their exceptional intelligence, wit, and joyfulness while hating them for their obvious superiority in those same qualities.

    This is a very profound book. Newman Fears bounces about the Solar System willy nilly in search of the secret of the Jews and finds that secret closely guarded by threat of extermination, but he nonetheless persists. What he finds, in a most unlikely place, is that what actually defines a Jew is far narrower than what most people think, but that Jewishness is far more inclusive than most people realize. He also finds that the lack of Jewishness that characterizes most gentiles is an affliction imposed on them by hegemons that robs them of their God nature and their sense of holiness and divinity. That appalling deprivation is the root of the jealous envy and abiding hatred in which gentile society holds its sacred Jewish bretheren.

    For this reader, the take-home message in Jews on the Moon is that whether or not we are actually Jews in the narrow sense, we can, if we choose, all be Jewish, and in being so, immeasurably gladden, enrich, and sanctify our lives, whoever and wherever we may be.

    David Bennett Laing (author of Beautyworld and Eustacia's Secret: A Love Story)
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2014
    I thought it was an interesting book but quite strange and I'm not sure intelligible to most people. I cannot imagine most non-Jews understanding much of what was written and I'm certain they would not see what the book is about.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2012
    Jews on the Moon is that rarest of novels, one that manages to be sage, ridiculous and very entertaining all at the same time. Even the title is hilarious. An additional plus, it goes down as easy as a cool dry martini. The best in literature invites the reader in without restriction. You don't need a PhD to love Jane Austin, Dickens, Flannery O'Connor and Hemingway. Stephen Geller understands that essential truth: an engaging prose style plus a spoonful of humor helps the philosophy go down. Buy this book, read it and if you don't laugh out loud and love it perhaps it's time to reexamine your priorities. I greatly look forward to the next three volumes of this intriguing tetralogy.
    2 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2012
    Normally I shy away from books over 200 pages. Once I started reading JEWS ON THE MOON, I read the 300+ pages of book 1 every evening late into the night. I was enchanted by its view of our world interpreted with such finely tuned perception as it flows into the incredible world that the author invites one to see, feel & be renewed
    by its future reality..... The knowledge & sheer intelligence of the writing provokes one to seriously consider undertaking a journey into the worlds this opens up, that we need not be mired by the dull one dimensional world that we often accept out of convenience & fear.
    4 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2013
    Good concept, but over-done. Philosophy, religion, puns, who's a Jew. It started to drag early, and was a challenge to finish.
    2 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2013
    It is extremely rare for me to not finish a book I've started, but this one had to go. I got through a couple of chapters and realized it wasn't worth wasting my time on.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2012
    Jews on the Moon is a dazzling novel, part autobiography, part metaphysical and interplanetary road trip, a comic phantasmagoria intermixed with pitch-perfect burlesques of popular culture, and a quest for the answer to a single question: what is the key to the mystery of the Jews? Geller writes with extraordinary brio and with at least three of the qualities Calvino in Six Memos for the Next Millennium considered indispensable for fiction: lightness, quickness, and multiplicity. Highly recommended.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2013
    a little far fetched but very clever and well written...it made me laugh out loud...great light reading with a punch...enjoy
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