Status Updates From Jews versus Zombies

===== Wiseman's Terror Tales (Tambour) =====
Hmmm... Again, an interesting concept in a classic approach. I would've made the ending longer, bit more elaborated on because like this it was too sped up but the story in itself flowed alright. I'd say 3/5.

===== Tractate Metim 28A (Rosenbaum) =====
An interesting concept — a 'zombie' story in the form of a Talmudic tractate (mostly concerning from Genesis, Psalms and Proverbs). It was quite a difficult read and, in all honesty, I am not entirely sure how I feel about it. From a purely technical standpoint, it'd likely be a 5, story-wise, readability and all, I must go to 3.5-4/5, I'll decide later.

===== The Friday people (Lotz) =====
Again, a very short story but I loved the novel take on zombies here — I haven't seen anything like that before really in this combo. The story was quite simple but seemed dynamic enough, the characters were well crafted, to a certain extent it was relatable. Very nice, 5/5.

===== Ten for Sodoma (Polansky) =====
This was a nice short reckoning piece with well described setting and biblical parallels. It was quite setting-heavy and story-light, even despite the masses of zombies, which is a wee minus from me. Loved the wittiness, the second sentence is absolutely hysterical — "Ben was Jew to the extent that at one point he would have been put in an oven." Overall, 4/5.

===== Like a Coin Entrusted in Faith (Adaf) =====
I... will clearly need to get back to this one sometime in the future, because I just did not get what it tried to tell me. The overall style was curious, the two story-lines, I am not sure about the dramatization in 28, the only direct speech. The story was also interesting, I just did not understand the ending.
Also could use bit more editing. I... 3/5?

Previous was 2/5.
===== The Scapegoat Factory (Touché Gafla) =====
Again, quite an interesting take on the whole zombie thing. It was quite nice, well paced and dosed, even if a bit shallow. As will be true for all of these, I presume, it could be longer but I liked this one, 4/5.

===== Rise (Rossner) =====
An interesting take on the whole zombie thing, for some reason I got Erben's Svatební košile vibes, but in general I can't say this resonated with me all that much. The symbolism is nicely done but it is a bit too overpacked with characters and underpacked with story for how long it is which is quite short to begin with.

===== Introduction (Tidhar) =====
Very brief but witty introduction to the topic. Eight short stories. Made for charity.

"Zayinim" è ciò che mi aspettavo di trovare in questo libro: un'apocalisse zombi che ha colpito solo i non ebrei, così che ora i superstiti del popolo eletto vagabondano in convogli di camion, saccheggiando le rovine del vecchio mondo e sognando di costruire una nuova Gerusalemme. E l'eroina è l'unica figlia adolescente della sua tribù, e sta leggendo Nietzsche in cerca di risposte. Molto carino e troppo corto.

"I racconti del terrore di Wiseman" non mi è proprio piaciuto. Parla di un sarto aspirante ingegnere che viene tediato da una banda di donne non-morte: vogliono obbligarlo a creare i reggiseni del futuro a beneficio delle viventi.
Troppo corto, troppo sconnesso, troppo inutilmente ammiccante.

"Trattato metim 28a" è roba da far esplodere i cervelli: è un finto testo sapienziale in cui un litigio fra due sapienti degenera in un'invasione di non-morti e in un consesso di giuristi, il tutto corredato da finte note esegetiche che propongono interpretazioni metaforiche e individuano allusioni ad altri testi.
Non si capisce nulla se non ti intendi di studi ebraici, ma per uno specialista deve essere epico.

"La gente del venerdì" è una vicenda di vecchi condomini abituati da anziani decrepite e di nipoti di mezza età che vogliono ereditare. Sarà che inserisce l'orrore in un contesto che tutti sperimentiamo di persona, ma ti lascia un bel brivido.