The Rabbi and the Vampire (A Short Story)
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believe, will be known only long after I am gone.
Bram.
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Note of Thanks
About the Author
Darren Stein is an Australian artist and poet. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1973, Stein worked in the townships and squatter camps around Johannesburg and Soweto during the transition to democracy in the early 1990’s. His fields included adult literacy, voter education, election monitoring, and subsequently Police reform which worked towards building reconciliation between local community groups and the Post-Apartheid police forces. After suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by his exposure to the violence of the period, he immigrated to Sydney, Australia.
Darren obtained his Bachelor’s degree in History and English from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa (1994), and completed two Masters degrees in Political Science (1997) and Education (2001) from the University of Sydney. In 2004 he won the Florence J. Melton Fellowship from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and completed a Post-Graduate Diploma in Religious Studies. He currently teaches history and comparative religion at Masada College on Sydney’s North Shore. He is married to a wonderful wife named Rikki with whom he has two children.
His poetry has appeared in various anthologies, including Over the Rainbow (1996), The Liquid Mirror (1998), An Endless Place (1999), and Storage Space: A collection of contemporary poetry (2008). His art can be viewed via online exhibit through his website which is searchable on most internet browsers.