American and European sensibility with a contemporary view of Eastern European culture and the erotic playfulness of European literature.

Etan Yogev had had no experience in bedand hardly any outside of itand it was not without a strong feeling of awkwardness and insecurity that he had first allowed Daphna Flinker to guide his somewhat ambivalent member into her own body, and his lips against her lips. She enjoyed itthis teacherly roleit had been a very long time since she had been able to practice the art of sexual instruction, and there was something exciting and alluring about thisall that innocence in a single place!A humorous and heartrending portrait of expatriate life, The Greatest Jewish American Lover in Hungarian History draws upon the hazards and confusions that occur when the Old World meets the New. In venues as diverse as Israel, Hungary, Paris, Cambridge, and even Texas, the stories portray life in an increasingly connected and globalized world. Michael Blumenthal displays the erotic zest of Philip Roth and the grim humanism of Isaak Babel.Michael Blumenthal, formerly director of creative writing at Harvard, graduated from the Cornell Law School with a JD degree in 1974, after studying philosophy and economics at the State University of New York at Binghamton. His eighth book of poems, No Hurry, was published by Etruscan Press in 2012. He is currently a visiting professor of law at the West Virginia University College of Law.

Table of ContentsThree Beds 4She and I 21The Death of Fekete 35The Greatest Jewish-American Lover in Hungarian History 57The Whores 66My French Wife 85Tomorrow 125Good Night And Good Luck 135The Translator 154 They: An Anti-Romance 171Il n'y a pas d'Amour Heureux 187Netanyahuâs Mistress 195Vajdaâs Resurrection 204The Life You Hate May Be Your Own 219He Had Tried 225The Letter 232