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The main characters in the Seventh Beggar are a young student who becomes captivated by and ultimately obsessed with Kabbalistic thought and his nephew, a student at MIT, who is steeped in computer science and the creative power of artificial intelligence. While the novel is set in the present, in the background throughout is the 18th century Hasidic master, mystic and storyteller Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. Regarding the Seventh Beggar, Harold Bloom, Yale University Professor and literary critic wrote: "The Seventh Beggar is an amazingly poignant completion of the most enigmatic of Nachman of Bratslav’s tales. Rabbi Nachman listened for God's voice in the void and was frighteningly honest as to how difficult it was to apprehend redemption. By a kind of miracle of sympathetic imagination, Pearl Abraham has been able to revivify what may be the most spiritually disturbing of all Chasidic tales."

She is also the editor of the Dutch anthology Een Sterke Vrouw: Jewish Heroines in Literature. Her stories and essays have appeared in literary quarterlies and anthologies, including: Who We Are (Schocken Books), The Michigan Quarterly, The Forward, Epoch (Cornell), and Brooklyn Noir (Akashic Press). The Seventh Beggar was one of three finalists for the 2006 Koret Jewish Book Award in Fiction. The Romance Reader was a semifinalist for The Discover New Writer's Award, named "Best Book of 1995" by Library Journal, and selected as first title by Contra Costa Times of San Francisco. It was also on bestseller lists in Germany and the Netherlands. Her story "Hasidic Noir" won the 2006 Shamus Award for Best Short Story about a Private Eye.

Pearl Abraham (born 1960 in Jerusalem, Israel) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. She was the third of nine children in a Hasidic family. Her father was a rabbi. At age five, the family moved to New York City and two years later returned to Israel. Following several moves back and forth between New York and Israel, the family settled in New York when she was 12. She studied first in Yiddish, then in English and then again in Yiddish.