The Rabbi of Lud Magical Realism and yet endures

and yet endures

meets and tricks a boatful of unusual characters

and doing so in a gloriously skewed style (admirably re-created by Barbara Wright

from the gut and to the gut

jet-black comedian

The Rabbi of Lud Magical Realism and yet enduresby Stanley Elkin Publication Date: 05 01 2001 ISBN: 9781564782700 Surrounded by cemeteries in the flatlands of New Jersey, the small town of Lud is sustained by the business of death. In fact, with no synagogue and no congregation, Rabbi Jerry Goldkorn has only one true responsibility: to preside over burial services for Jews who pass away in the surrounding cities. But after the Arctic misadventures that led him to Lud, he wouldn't want to live (or