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…
Memoir. Paper, Perfect Bound. 104pp. $15.95 plus S&H 2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-10-4 The Russian Writer’s Daughter by Lydia S. Rosner is a collection of lively autobiographical stories about growing up in a Russian-American Jewish household in the stifling political atmosphere of the Red Scare. At the center of these memories is Lyduce’s father, whose complex personality…
Illustrations by Erica Kriss Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 92 pp. $15.95 plus s&h 2011, ISBN 978-1936419-005 Also available in laminated hardcover. $24.95 plus s&h. Howard Schwartz is a contemporary master of the parable, the short lyric and the tale. In Breathing in the Dark, he has multiplied his dreams, his myths, and his stories into…
Paper, perfect bound, 92 pp $15.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-898 Harmless, Myra Sklarew’s tenth collection of poetry, distills the experience of a life spent in the pursuit of truth. Trained as a biologist, Sklarew draws upon the discourses of science and the arts in equal measure. Also versed in history, Sklarew is haunted by…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 38 pp. $12.95 plus s&h 2008, ISBN 978-0932412-720 Rivkin’s keen and unblinking eye, great verbal energy, and wry wisdom confront her subjects with continuous, genuine surprise. My Mother’s Lace Curtains by Sophia Rivkin My Mother grew with a pitchfork in her heart— something planted by the Russian peasants. Surrounded by enemies,…
