Teitelbaum, Sheldon
Entry updated 7 October 2024. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor.
(1955- ) Canadian journalist and film and sf critic, resident 1977-1985 in Israel, where he served close to five years in the infantry and as a staff officer seconded to the paratrooper corps. His sf/horror column in the Jerusalem Post was the first such outside the sf magazines; he also had a film column in the Hebrew-language magazine Fantasia 2000. From 1986 to 1996 Teitelbaum was the Los Angeles correspondent for Cinefantastique. During his sojourn he covered sf-related affairs for The Los Angeles Times and The Jerusalem Report, where he worked as a US-based senior writer for more than a decade. He also won Canada's first Northern Lights Award for independent journalism in 1998, for a Wired magazine article.
His ambitious Zion's Fiction Anthology series, opening with Zion's Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature (anth 2018) with Emanuel Lottem, presents a wide-ranging selection of stories from the 1980s on, some in their original English, others translated by various hands. The book won a German Kurd Laßwitz Special Prize in 2023 (see Awards). The follow-up is More Zion's Fiction: Wondrous Tales from the Israeli ImagiNation (anth 2021). Both books have extensive introductions by the editors; a third volume is under way, with Fantasia 2000 and F2100 editor Aharon Hauptman replacing Teitelbaum's former co-editor Lottem, who died in 2024. [PN/DRL]
Sheldon Teitelbaum
born Montreal, Quebec: 22 April 1955
works as editor
series
Zion's Fiction
- Zion's Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature (Simsbury, Connecticut: Mandel Vilar Press, 2018) with Emanuel Lottem [anth: introduction by Robert Silverberg: Zion's Fiction: illus/pb/Avi Katz]
- More Zion's Fiction: Wondrous Tales from the Israeli ImagiNation (place not given: Zion's Fiction Partners, 2021) with Emanuel Lottem [anth: introduction by David Brin: Zion's Fiction: illus/pb/Avi Katz]
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