Jews in fantasy

[polaris_starz]

I know people have been posting links to their own Jewish-themed fanfic, but I didn't seen a post for recommending other people's-- if there is, please point it out to me. But anyway, today I was looking through my bookmarks and stumbled over this: Kaddish, by copperbadge, which is a HP fic about Remus and Harry saying Kaddish for James, Lily, and Sirius

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[tiferet]

There are a lot of Jewish characters here at http://asylums.insanejournal.com/lightning_war, which is either a shared universe multifandom mashup writing project or an RPG, we run it more like the first but somewhat like the second. Currently the project still has Harry Potter serial numbers on it but when we close this round, version 3.0 will be urban fantasy with the HP characters' "names changed to protect the guilty" just like all the other characters' names are. Set in 1942, in a Britain (Britannia) with magick use.

The HP aspects of the plot were based on HP canon circa 2003, before JKR went to the Holocaust Museum and decided to make everything a complete parallel, so they will seem rather strange to the eye of a person who's read HBP and DH, and we no longer claim to be an HP game. (The people who run the thing, myself included, didn't like either of the last two books and only incorporated a little bit of OOTP into their world.)

The reader's community is at lightningwatch. FWIW.

Anyhow, there are characters from several different types of Jewish backgrounds, including anusim ("conversos").