"Sweet Malida" by Zilka Joseph - 60 pages, 2024 - $19.95 & S+H - Who are the Bene Israel Jews of India? Where did they come from? How did they survive in India? "Sweet Malida" is a moving, multi-layered, richly sensory and informative collection of poems and short prose inspired by this ancient community to which the poet herself belongs. Using various poetic forms, the poet launches on an imaginative journey, delving into the history, especially the food and culinary customs of this small community of Indian Jews, explores its special connection to the Prophet Elijah, while seamlessly weaving in memories, bringing to life the past and lost loved ones as well.…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 104 pages
2021, ISBN: 978-1-952781-07-0 $19.95 + S&H
In Our Beautiful Bones traces various stages in the poet’s journey as an immigrant from India who makes a new life in the US, and her encounters with racism and otherness. In it she explores her Bene Israel roots and ancestors, her life in Kolkata, the influences of British rule and a missionary education, her growing knowledge of what racism and marginalization means, how Indians and Indian culture is perceived and represented. While delving unflinchingly into the violence and global impact of colonialism, the weaponization of the English Language, the evils of tyranny and White Supremacy, and the struggles of oppressed peoples everywhere, she creates powerful collages from mythology, folklore, fairy tales, Scripture, world history and culture, literature, music, food, and current events. Traditional and experimental forms, sensory riches, wit and word play, and an unwavering and clear voice make this book a compelling read. These poems expose prejudice on an international as well as a personal level, and lead the reader to face harsh truths— insults, insensitivity, injustice, ignorance, discrimination, subtle and deliberate aggressions that immigrants, people of color, and the oppressed face daily, and wrestles with her own complex emotions, the current threats to Democracy both in the US—her adopted home, and her native India, her love for both countries. In Our Beautiful Bones is a multi-layered, sharply ironic and sometimes pathos-filled critique of the world, and at the same time it is visionary and a triumph of the human spirit.…
Fiction, short stories. Paper, Perfect Bound. 172 pages
2021, ISBN: 978-1-936419-96-8 $20.95 + S&H
Jews being Jewish: that’s the subject of Jennifer Anne Moses’s new collection of short stories. Whether in Tel Aviv, suburban New Jersey, or the Deep South, the characters who populate the pages of The Man Who Loved His Wife grapple with God, their loved ones, fate, death, hope, Hitler, transcendence, and the 4000 year old history of Judaism. With a Yiddish sensibility born of passion, an eye for detail, and a deadpan sense of humor reminiscent of Singer, Salinger, and Tillie Olsen, Moses captures singularly Jewish and wholly human characters as they live and breathe through their stories Lovely, tender, and hard to put down, these are short stories that leave you yearning for more.…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound 84 pages 2019, ISBN: 978-1-936419-87-6 $16.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. What if your death was born with you when you were born, your shadow twin, and walks around with you wherever you go,…
On September 19th, 2016 Zelda Kahan Newman, translator of Rivka Basman Ben-Haim’s The Thirteen Hour, was a guest of the Library of Congress. Her presentation was cosponsored by the Hebraic section of the African and Middle East Division at the library and the Hebrew Language Table, in cooperation with the Embassy of Israel. The presentation…
Yiddish/English Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 94 pages 2016, ISBN: 978-1-936419-71-5 $15.95 + S&H Shipping to USA? Please use this button ==>> Shipping to Israel and Rest of World? Please use this button ==>> Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. Original Yiddish…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 80 pages 2016, ISBN: 978-1-936419-56-2 $15.95 & S+H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. Taking her title from the kabbalist creation tale of the clay vessels that had to break so God’s light could scatter through the…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 64 pages 2015, ISBN: 978-1-936419-47-0 $15.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. Come to the first supper in America with Momma and Poppa, two surviving aunts and two surviving uncles who speak in flawed English,…
Poetry / Prose-poems; Paper, Perfect Bound. 30 pages 2014, ISBN: 978-1-936419-43-2 $12.95 Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. With Tales of the Tetragrammaton, poet Paul Nemser reaches into his own childhood memories to explore the mystery at the heart of ordinary…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 72pp $14.95 plus S&H 2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-14-2 Edythe Haendel Schwartz is the author of “Exposure,” Finishing Line Press, 2007, a nominee for the California Book Award. Her poem “A Natural Phenomenon,” won first prize in the 2012 Friends of Acadia Poetry competition, and her poem “Resist” was a winner in Persimmon…
