The Rabbi and the Vampire (A Short Story)
By Darren Stein
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Although Vampires are found in many cultures, this is a short story about the Jewish origins of the Vampire legend as found in the Torah and Talmud which has entered into literature. The information in this regard is factual, as was the treatment of the Jews I describe in the late Middle Ages, just before the advent of the Enlightenment. The fictional account of Bram Stoker in this particular regard, however, serves the narrative and although many Jews indeed abandoned their identity to seek opportunities outside of the ghetto walls, Stoker was not actually one of them.
Darren Stein
Darren Stein is an Australian writer and poet. He teaches English and the vicissitudes of life at a public high school on Sydney's North Shore. His work has been published in a variety of publications, most recently, the Foreign Literary Journal, CultureCult Magazine, Quadrant and Going Down Swinging. He has written three books, including "Stop all the clocks", "Storage Space: A collection of contemporary poetry" and "The Nut House Poems", all available on Amazon and Kindle.
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Darren Stein
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I was not there when the girl came sprinting past the darkened workshops and tanneries towards the Juden Strase, her feet mercifully numb as they slid and slit against the icy cobble stones beneath them. I would see her injuries later - would mop up the blood that she trailed across the floor from her ravaged soles - would tend to the scratches that had torn across her hands and arms from where he had tried to snatch her.
I could imagine her desperately weaving between the putrid reek of steaming