Where I Am by Dana Shem-Ur
Translator: Yardenne Greenspan A piercing novel about life abroad in a cultural setting not one’s own: Reut is an Israeli translator living in Paris with a French husband and their child. She’s made sacrifices...
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One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset by Shimon Adaf
Translator: Yardenne Greenspan At age thirty, Elish Ben Zaken has found himself in a life he never imagined. As a university student, Elish was an esteemed rock-music critic for local newspapers; now, disenchanted with...
Victorious by Yishai Sarid
Translator: Yardenne Greenspan From the author of The Memory Monster, a New York Times Notable Book of 2020, comes a gripping examination of the complexities of military service as experienced by Abigail, a psychologist...
The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid
Translated by Yardenne Greenspan Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, our unnamed narrator recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young...
The First Mrs. Rothschild by Sara Aharoni
Translator: Yardenne Greenspan It is the turn of the eighteenth century in Frankfurt, Germany, and young Gutle and Meir Amschel Rothschild struggle to establish themselves in the cramped and restricted Judengasse. But when Meir’s talents...
Petty Business by Yirmi Pinkus
Translators: Evan Fallenberg, Yardenne Greenspan As they do every year, Yosef Zinman, a well-to-do Tel Aviv grocer, and his beloved wife Zippi plan a vacation during the holiday of Sukkot to Seefeld in the...
