Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- What is Fantasy? -- What Is Reality? -- What is Unimaginable? -- May He Come in Haste: Urban Fantasy in Soothsayer by Asaf Ashery -- Etgar Keret's Fantastic Reality -- Postmodern Jewish Superstition in David Grossman's To the End of the Land -- Dybbuk, Husband, Home: Shmuel Hasfari and the Fantastic Tradition in Israeli Theater -- Magical Realism in Israeli Cinema -- The Grand High Witch of Dreams -- The Man from the Yellow Star -- Why Doesn't It Rain Fish Here? -- Kosher Vampires: Jews, Vampires, and Prejudice -- Travel Literature: The Itinerary of an Armchair Traveler's Journey to Eretz Israel in a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Story -- Ghost Stories in Medieval Hebrew Folktales: The Case of Sefer Hasidim and Sippurei Ha-Ari1 -- A Terrible Fable and Enchanting Fiction: The Story of Joseph De-La Reina and Its Reflections in Two Novels of Yehoshua Bar Yosef -- The Borders of Messianic Imagination in Jewish Thinking.