Happy New Years by Maya Arad
Translator: Jessica Cohen After emigrating to the United States in the mid-1960s, Leah maintains her connection to Israel by writing an annual letter on the Jewish new year to her old friends from a...
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The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad
Translator: Jessica Cohen Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life...
One for Each Night: The Greatest Chanukah Stories of All Time
This rich medley of stories, poems, and essays features evocations of Chanukah by classic and contemporary authors including Sholom Aleichem, Nobel laureates S. Y. Agnon and Elie Wiesel, I. L. Peretz, Emma Lazarus, Theodor...
Professor Schiff’s Guilt by Agur Schiff
Translator: Jessica Cohen A stellar novel rendered into a darkly comic, unforgettable narrative by Booker International Prize winning translator Jessica Cohen. An Israeli professor travels to a fictitious West African nation to trace a...
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...
Return to Latvia by Marina Jarre
Translator: Ann Goldstein Building upon her celebrated autobiography Distant Fathers, Italian author Marina Jarre returns to her native Latvia for the first time since she left as a ten-year-old girl in 1935. In Return...
Pollak’s Arm by Hans von Trotha
Translator: Elisabeth Lauffer October 16, 1943, inside the Vatican as darkness descends upon Rome. Having been alerted to the Nazi plan to round up the city’s Jewish population the next day, Monsignor F. dispatches...
The Vanished Collection by Pauline Baer de Perignon
Cover Art: Pierre Le-TanTranslator: Natasha Lehrer It all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn’t seen for years, were the names of the masters whose works once belonged...
The Piano Student by Lea Singer
Translator: Elisabeth Lauffer The Piano Student centers on an affair between one of the 20th century’s most celebrated pianists, Vladimir Horowitz, and his young male student, Nico Kaufmann, in the late 1930s. As Europe hurtles...
The Drive by Yair Assulin
Translator: Jessica Cohen This searing novel tells the journey of a young Israeli soldier at the breaking point, unable to continue carrying out his military service, yet terrified of the consequences of leaving the...
