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Pearl Abraham<\/A> is the author of The Seventh Beggar<\/I>, about which Harold Bloom wrote, “By a kind of miracle of sympathetic imagination, Pearl Abraham has been able to revivify what may be the most spiritually disturbing of all Chasidic tales.” An excerpt of The Seventh Beggar<\/I> appears in Bloom’s new book, Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine<\/I>. Abraham’s earlier novels are Giving Up America<\/I> and the international bestseller The Romance Reader<\/I>. Recent stories were published in Epoch<\/I> and the Forward<\/I>; “Hasidic Noir,” published in Brooklyn Noir<\/I>, just won the Shamus Award for best short story. Abraham is also the editor of the Dutch anthology Een sterke vrouw: Jewish Heroines in Literature<\/I> (Meulenhoff, 2000). <\/p>\nI’ll be on vacation all next week, and won’t even be checking my email for days on end. To keep Beatrice going while I’m away, I called on a couple friends and convinced them to do some daily posting. Pearl Abraham is the author of The Seventh Beggar, about which Harold Bloom wrote, “By a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"egordon.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/egordon.jpg\")
Emily Gordon is an editor, critic, and poet who’s been writing emdashes.com<\/A>, a blog about the New Yorker<\/I>, since December 2004. For Beatrice<\/I>, she’ll be covering as much of the New Yorker<\/I> Festival<\/A> as she can handle—i.e., lots and lots—during the weekend of Sept. 23-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"