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One of the characteristics of Jewish literature is to write with subtext referencing the main texts of Jewish culture, the Torah, Talmud and Kabbalah.
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One of the characteristics of Jewish literature is to write with subtext referencing the main texts of Jewish culture, the Torah, Talmud and Kabbalah. Some distinctive forms include using names of characters from these texts to impart significance onto the novels own characters or allusions to events and or biblical metaphors. Both A.M. Klein's The Second Scroll and Adele Wiseman's Crackpot have references like these in spades. Klein takes the more formal approach; his novel not only mirrors the first five books of the bible, the Pentateuch, in chapter name and in alluded content, but the characters he uses are on a quest through history and through the Torah for the promised land, much like the journey of the ancient Jews themselves in their quest for Israel. Wiseman's Crackpot uses a more subtle subtext of the Kabbalah, but her heroine is far from subtle herself, the very nature of her...
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