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09/08/2024

Fig Tree Lit August 2024 Issue #57 is now available at https://conta.cc/3WVRV35 . Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: A roundtable discussion with Jews from the former Soviet Union about their experience as immigrants, where they fit into the American Jewish community, how they view rising antisemitism after Oct. 7, and which customs and recipes they’re passing down to the next generation.
COMING SOON: It Takes Two to Torah, by Abigail Pogrebin and Rabbi Dov Linzer - Foreword by Mayim Bialik
BOOK EXCERPT: The Moon in a Paper Bag, by Lila Kalick
MEMOIR: In Bad Faith, by Dassi Erlich
BOOK Foreword: The Pawnbroker, by Edward Lewis Wallant, Foreword by Dara Horn
PARSHA: On Leadership - Pacing Change, by Rabbi Sacks
BOOK: Adam Unrehearsed, by Don Fetterman
BOOK REVIEW: 100 Jewish Brides, by Barbara Vinick & Shulamit Reinharz
CONVERSATION: The Diary Beyond Anne Frank: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Nina Sie­gal and Yael van der Wouden

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08/07/2024

Fig Tree Lit July 2024 Issue #56 is now available at https://conta.cc/3Ydm1jR . Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: The Blue Butterfly of Cochin, by A***na Mizrachi, illustrated by Siona Benjamin
COMING SOON: It Takes Two to Torah, by Abigail Pogrebin and Rabbi Dov Linzer
BOOK EXCERPT: A Lakota and a Jew Walk into a Bar, by Alan Klein
ARTICLE: Yossi Halper's Beloved Tel Aviv Bookstore and October 7
BOOK REVIEW: Bylines and Blessings, by Judy Gruen
GUEST COLUMNIST: Eve Barlow - Breaking the Habit
ESSAY: You want context? Here's context, by Micha Danzig
GUEST EDITORIAL: Thane Rosenbaum - 9/11 + 10/7 = Boom!
ESSAY: Hamas has a secret weapon no one talks about: Western stupidity, by Dr. Casey Babb

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05/06/2024

Fig Tree Lit June 2024 Issue #55 is now available at https://conta.cc//45iflCs . Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: A Chilean-Jewish artist strives to capture the entire Torah in massive murals
ESSAY: The Golden Age of American Jews is Ending, by Franklin Foer
GUEST COLUMNIST: Eve Barlow - Comedy Gold
BOOK REVIEW: The Number on Your Forearm Is Blue Like Your Eyes, by Eva Umlauf with Stefanie Oswalt
GUEST EDITORIAL: Thane Rosenbaum - The kids are NOT all right
EXCERPT FROM A NOVEL: The Anniversary, by Wendy Ungar
ESSAY: Dear Campus Protesters, by Melinda Roth
BOOK: No One Came to Taos to Be Jewish, by Bruce Grossman
ESSAY: I can't believe I agree with Caroline Glick, by Anonymous
6 FAVORITE JEWISH PODCASTS

You don't want to miss this!   The Newsletter of Fig Tree Books June 2024: Issue #55 --- Fredric D. Price, Founder & Publisher Oops! Last month, the issue was mis-labeled as June OUR MISSION: Through

06/05/2024

Fig Tree Lit May 2024 Issue #54 (oops! mislabeled June) is now available at https://conta.cc/3UKoYWX. Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Growing up Jewish in the South
ARTICLE: The Persian-Jewish grandma who wants to feed the entire IDF from her apartment
GUEST COLUMNIST: Eve Barlow - Israel Retaliates
SHORT STORY: I’m no Anne Frank. I’m not a man of words, by Maurice Labi
GUEST EDITORIAL: Thane Rosenbaum - What Others Won't Say
BOOK: Daughter of a Promise, by Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
ESSAY: A Necklace by Michelle Braun
SHORT STORY: Never Again, by Howard Jay Smith
SINAI AND SYNAPSES: Bridges the scientific and religious worlds

08/03/2024

Fig Tree Lit March 2024 Issue #52 is now available at https://conta.cc/3IsCPdq. Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Spending a Fortnight in Jew Town, Kochi, by Shastri Akella
ESSAY: Why Dostoevsky Loved Humanity and Hated the Jews
GUEST COLUMNIST: A video by Eve Barlow, creator of Blacklisted
ESSAY: The New Antisemitism Is the Oldest Kind, by Lance Morrow
SHORT STORY: A New Year, by Elizabeth Edelglass
CHAPTER: from Concealed, by Esther Amini
GUEST EDITORIAL: In Israel’s Time of Need, Jewish Hollywood Has Failed the Audition, by Thane Rosenbaum
ESSAY: Orthodox Jews Are Finally Having Their Pop Culture Moment, by Chavie Lieber
BOOK REVIEW: The Little Liar, by Mitch Albom, reviewed by Andrew Lapin
ESSAY: Celebrating a legacy of antisemitism at Harvard, by Andrew Getraer

06/02/2024

Fig Tree Lit February 2024 Issue #51 is now available at https://conta.cc/3Sm2jNW. Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Inventing Zacharias: Writing Mizrahi Stories by Jasmin Attia
DELI - CIOUS: Ratner’s by Eli Shoshani; & Pastrami on Rye, by Ted Merwin
SHORT STORY: Senior Day, by Carol Solomon
GUEST COLUMNIST - EVE BARLOW, Think Like Your Enemy
ESSAY AND BOOK: The Case for the Next Siddur, by Richard Agler
SHORT STORY: The Demon of Riverside Drive, by Jennifer Anne Moses
ESSAY: The Road to a Second Kristallnacht, by Bret Stephens
SHORT STORY: The Wonder Hitter, by Larry Lefkowitz
GUEST EDITORIAL: The Folly of Ceasefire, by Thane Rosenbaum
BOOK: Zhen Yu and the Snake,’ by Erica Lyons
SPEECH: Columbia Student, Noa Fay
BOOK: Streams of Shattered Consciousness, by Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner

08/01/2024

Fig Tree Lit January 2024 Issue #50 is now available at https://conta.cc/48oLzwx. Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: My Black Jewish Family's Values Were 150 Years in the Making;
GUEST COLUMNIST - EVE BARLOW, Creator of Blacklisted - They joined a cult;
GUEST EDITORIAL - When that other ball drops, by
COMMENTS: On Harvard's ex-president, Claudine Gay
BOOK CHAPTER: Confronting Antisemitism on Campus, by Chaim Siedler-Feller
POETRY: Lot's Wife, by Janet Silver Ghent
FROM AN UNPUBLISHED NOVEL: Our Time is Up, by Roberta Satow
BOOK REVIEW: The Boatmaker, by John Benditt
SHORT STORY: The Visit by Maurice Labi
BOOK REVIEW: The Politzer Saga by Linda Broenniman

10/12/2023

Fig Tree Lit December 2023 Issue #49 is now available at https://conta.cc/3Rdc1lq. Includes
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: My Iraqi JewishGrandmother’s Hands, bySarah Sassoon;
BOOK: The Land of Hope andFear, by Isabel Kershner
CHAPTER: The Kiddush Rabbi, by Simon Fleischer
ESSAY: Shabbat - A Journey of Personal and Global Discovery, by Warren Goldstein
POEM: Hannah Bloom-Dream Juggler, by Jacquie Herz
ARTICLE: How to Become a Jewish Comedian, by Joanne Palmer
CHAPTER: The Whale Surfaces, by Ruth Rotkowitz
ESSAY AND VIDEO: Reform Judaism Will Lose Its Soul if It Forsakes Its Commitment to Jewish Peoplehood and Zionism
GUEST COLUMNIST - EVE BARLOW, Creator of Blacklisted -
Sophie's Choice
GUEST EDITORIAL - Kristallnacht, Act II, by Thane Rosenbaum

10/12/2023

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07/11/2023

Fig Tree Lit November 2023 Issue #48 is now available at https://conta.cc/3Qpz7EP. Includes JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Jews of the Spanish Homeland - Finding My Sephardic Family in a 1929 Film, by Elizabeth Graver; SHORT STORY: United by ; CHAPTER: Saying Inshallah with Chutzpah, by Jessica Keith; ESSAY: DC’s new Jewish museum highlights Jews who shaped the nation’s capital, from a Confederate spy to RBG, by ; BOOK REVIEW: Dwell Time, by Rosa Lowinger; ESSAY: That They Be Safe in the Land, by Ilana Blumberg: From Israel, October 12, 2023; GUEST EDITORIAL: Gaza — Where the Moral Math of Revenge Has No Equal, by .

05/10/2023

Fig Tree Lit October 2023 Issue #47 is now available at https://conta.cc/3F60pLu. Includes JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: A Remarkable Jewish Community in the Most Unlikely of Places, by Jonathan Miller; SHORT STORY: The Conversion of the Jews, by Cynthia Ozick; INTERVIEW: When I Found Authentic Torah, by Abigail Pogrebin; SHORT STORY: Bad Karma, by Etgar Keret; TWEET: You never know who you’re sitting next to, by Rabbi Shmuel Reichman; ESSAY: The Fortunate Foàs of Sabbioneta, by Eleanor Foa; SHORT STORY: What To Do About The Women, by ; NOVEL: The Girl Who Counted Numbers, by ... and Book & Movie: The Jew Who Posed as a N**i.

07/09/2023

Fig Tree Lit September 2023 Issue #46 is now available at https://conta.cc/3R7iyj6. Includes:JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Ex-Hasidic woman gives tours of her former NYC stomping grounds from the outside in; BOOK:The Sassoons, by Joseph Sassoon; ESSAY by Jon Papernick, author of The Book of Stone; ESSAY: A Catholic photographer and Chicago’s cannabis king: How I tracked down the greatest bar mitzvah photo of all time — and BOOK: Hope, by Andrew Ridker; Interview of Max Weinberg, King of the Beat (E-Street Band); CHAPTER: The Last Dekrepitzer by Howard Langer; BOOK REVIEW: Taking Miracles Seriously by Michael Zedek; ESSAY: Be Guided by the Angel on Your Shoulder, by Lawrence Kadish.

04/08/2023

Fig Tree Lit August 2023 Issue #45 is now available at https://conta.cc/3KtG8CC. Includes:JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Q &A with Chinese Jewish Advocate and Educator Amy Albertson; BOOK: Summons to Berlin, by Joanne Intrator; PODCASTER Gatecrashes Ivy League Anti-Semitism; TIK TOK SENSATION: Daf Reactionary - Miriam Anzovin ; BOOK REVIEW: The Jewish Underground of Samarkand, By Rabbi Hillel Zaltzman; MAESTROS & MONSTERS: Days and Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner, by Robert Boyers; D'VAR TORAH: The Importance of Justice in Judaism—the essence of the Torah, by Ann Rose Simon; FACEBOOK GROUP: Jews Love To Read!; FILM: 'Til Kingdom Come, by Maya Zinshtein

07/07/2023

Fig Tree Lit July 2023 Issue #44 is now available at https://conta.cc/3NKoz1V. Includes:JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: 10 Jewish Women to Follow; SPEECH: Rabbi Angela Buchdahl addresses graduates at Stanford University; VIDEO: Jewish Contrarians; BOOK: The American Way, by Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler; SHORT STORY: The Nuns Spoke Yiddish, I thought, by Allan Appel; ESSAY: Archie Rand, the Jewish Michelangelo?; BOOK: The Varieties of Jewish Experience, by Larry Lefkowitz; VIDEO: Kolture, The Digital Destination for Jewish Arts and Culture; MY JEWISH YEAR: Chapter 24, Tisha B'Av, by

05/06/2023

Fig Tree Lit June 2023 Issue #43 is now available at https://conta.cc/3WOkXQo. Includes:JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: How I Learned to Embrace my Black and Jew­ish Heritage; VIDEO: Lew the Jew and the history of American tattoo; BOOK: The Syrian Sunset, by Howard Kaplan; CHAPTER: Love atop A Keyboard, by Janet Silver Ghent; ESSAY: Isaac Babel - My First Goose, by Ruth Wisse; POEM: Enough, by Elizabeth Edelglass; BOOK: The Escape Artist, by Jonathan Freedland; GUEST EDITORIAL: The Leo Frank lynching comes to Broadway, by ; MY JEWISH YEAR: Chapter 18, Yom HaShoah, by

10/05/2023

Fig Tree Lit May 2023 Issue #42 is available at https://conta.cc/3NOrOH7 Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Broadway’s latest ‘Evan Hansen’ on his new role and being ‘Jasian,’ or Jewish- Asian VIDEO EDITORIAL: What Others Won't Say, by Thane Rosenbaum ESSAY: It's not only about the wall, by Ilan Chaim POEM: The Uncle From The War, by Elizabeth Edelglass STORY: May He Rest In Peace, by Alan Swyer SPORTS: 10 Jewish baseball players from history who you may not know and The joys of catching a baseball at the Giants’ Jewish heritage night BOOK: Secrets of an Italian Island, by Barbara Josselsohn MY JEWISH YEAR: Chapter 18, Yom HaShoah, by Abigail Pogrebin

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06/03/2023

Fig Tree Lit March 2023 Issue #40 is available at https://conta.cc/3YEtZz3 Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: The Blessings of Manasia; INTERVIEW: A Latina-American Jew finds a kindred spirit in this romantic YA ghost story;
GUEST EDITORIAL: The Apartheid Slander Against Israel, by Thane Rosenbaum;
BOOK: I Meant To Tell You, by Fran Hawthorne;
Docu-Series: TikTok influencer Montana Tucker makes Holocaust docu-Series for Gen Z;
INTERVIEW: Tom Stoppard, author of Leopoldstadt;
HISTORY: Braving bigotry and enemy fire, Jews served the Union valiantly during the Civil War;
MY JEWISH YEAR: Chapter 14, Tzom Esther & Purim by Abigail Pogrebin.

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06/02/2023

Fig Tree Lit February 2023 Issue #39 is available at: https://conta.cc/3DLSkeC
Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: How a Catholic-born Peruvian villager led hundreds to Jewish conversionGUEST EDITORIAL: : When it Comes to Hating Jews, Academic Freedom is in Full Bloom
NEWS: Tel Aviv Bookseller Releases his 1st Original Story Collection by Melanie LidmanSHORT STORY: The World was Made for Me, by Jennifer Anne Moses
BOOK REVIEW: Safekeeping from Jessamyn Hope by Mark DintenfassNEWS: Woke Anti-Semitism, by David BernsteinESSAY & Photos: How a teenage photographer captured a vanishing world before the Holocaust, by Simi Horowitz
POETRY: by Harriet Shenkman
VIDEO - How To Get Published with David Michael Slater
BOOK: Jewish Folktales from Morocco, by Marc Eliany
MY JEWISH YEAR: Chapter 13, Tu B'shvat, by
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04/01/2023

Fig Tree Lit January 2023 Issue #38 is available at: https://conta.cc/3GdDKg5

Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Grammy-winning, Black-Jewish songwriter Autumn Rowe;
ESSAY: The Spirit of Adoption, by Fran Scheffler-Siegel;
DOCUSERIES: Ken Burns’ The U.S. and the Holocaust;
ESSAY: Artists Under Fire, by Lana Melman;
CRITIC: top 10 moments of Jewish entertainment for 2022;
BOOKS FROM MANDEL VILAR PRESS: Two related Holocaust Memoirs;
BOOK REVIEWS: City of Thieves, by David Benioff;
NEWS: Boston’s Jews are getting a ‘Jewish tavern’ – to study religious texts, drink beer;
MY JEWISH YEAR: Chapter 11, The Tenth of Tevet, by Abigail Pogrebin.

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03/01/2023

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Winner of 9 literary awards.

Readers will find connections here to Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) and to Saul Bellow’s classic The Adventures of Augie March (1953).—Booklist (American Library Association), Starred Review.

This amazing mosaic of fact and fiction will hold readers in its grip from the first to last page.—Library Journal, Starred Review

05/12/2022

Fig Tree Lit December 2022 Issue # 37 is available at:

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04/11/2022

Fig Tree Lit issue #36 (November) was just issued (https://conta.cc/3DDBgqg). It features: SHORT STORY: Tales of the Great Healer, by Susan Philips; ESSAY: A Homeric Funeral, by Yoel Magid; INTERVIEW: Faye Kellerman talks about books, crimes, and characters; QUOTES: 68 from Jewish Writers, by Heidi Slowinski; BOOK REVIEW: Sepahrdi Voices - The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands, by Henry Green and Richard Stursberg; BOOK & FILM: Three Minutes in Poland, by Glenn Kurtz; JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Beyond the Count - Perspectives and Lived Experiences of Jews of Color, Commissioned by the Jews of Color Initiative; and CHAPTER 7, Hoshana Rabbah & Shemini Atzeret, from ’s “My Jewish Year”.

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08/10/2022

Fig Tree Lit issue #35 (October) was just issued (https://conta.cc/3VbBKM8). It features: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES Former professional basketball player Amar’e Stoudemire's Jewish journey, from young scholar to aspiring ‘prophet’; MUSIC Follow-up to music issue of April 2022 – Jennifer Warnes, HAIM Sisters, and Elana A***n, Deborah Sacks Mintz, and Chava Mirel; ESSAY A Shot of Whiskey by Dan Farkas; CHAPTER Ani L'Dodi / I am to my Beloved by Eitan Runmyan; ESSAY Response to BDS by Gemma Schneider; POEM Little Odessa by Harriet Shenkman; CHAPTER From Convict to Conviction by Shawn Balva; BLOG: Could a 'Jewish Literary Mafia' Really Control American Publishing?; and CHAPTER 4, The Truth About Yom Kippur by ’s “My Jewish Year”.

You don't want to miss this! ‌ The Newsletter of Fig Tree Books LLC October 2022: Issue #35 Fredric D. Price, Founder & Publisher OUR MISSION: Through published books, essays, chapters of unpublished

08/09/2022

Fig Tree Lit issue #34 (September) was just issued (https://conta.cc/3Rr8HlF). It features: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES The Lost Jews of Nigeria; ESSAY I love Living Jews by David Glickman; CHAPTER A Daughter’s Kaddish by Sarah Birnbach; ESSAYS Dialogue Between Adam and Eve by 5 authors; STORY High Holiday Parrot by Alan Appel; CHAPTER Leaving Eastern Parkway by Matthew Daub; ESSAY Piano Man by Steven Rubin; and CHAPTER 1, Prepping Rosh Hashanah from ’s “My Jewish Year”.

You don't want to miss this! ‌ The Newsletter of Fig Tree Books LLC Sept 2022: Issue #34 Fredric D. Price, Founder & Publisher OUR MISSION: Through published books, essays, chapters of unpublished boo

08/08/2022

Fig Tree Lit issue #33 (August) was just issued (https://conta.cc/3Sw01v4). It features: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Phoenix mom becomes first Orthodox competitor on ‘American Ninja Warrior; CHAPTER: The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton by Andrew Porwancher; ESSAY: Publishers Against People of the Book by Melissa Langsam Braunstein; Hiding and Seeking FILM by Menachem Daum; ESSAY: The People of the Book by Rabbi Daniel Reiser; CHAPTER: The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters by Julie Klam; ESSAY: An Apology -Then and Now by Judy Gruen; and CHAPTER 25, My Shabbat Landing from Abigail Pogrebin’s “My Jewish Year”.

You don't want to miss this! ‌ The Newsletter of Fig Tree Books LLC August 2022: Issue #33 Fredric D. Price, Founder & Publisher OUR MISSION: Through published books, essays, chapters of unpublished b

11/07/2022

Fig Tree Lit issue #32 (July) was just issued (https://conta.cc/3AFX1FS). It features: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Multi-media exhibit ‘Periphery’ brings marginalized Canadian Jews into focus; CHAPTER: The Springs of Marah, by Avram Davis; BOOK REVIEW: The Takeaway Men by Meryl Ain; STORY: A Golem for me by Larry Lefkowitz; BOOK REVIEW: Bad News by Batya Ungar-Sargon; RESPONSES: to the June Blog; BOOK: The Choice, by Maggie Anton; BOOK REVIEW: Jacobo’s Rainbow by David Hirshberg; and CHAPTER 18, “Yom Hashoah” from Abigail Pogrebin’s “My Jewish Year”.

You don't want to miss this! ‌ The Newsletter of Fig Tree Books LLC July 2022: Issue #32 Fredric D. Price, Founder & Publisher We are pleased to announce that Fig Tree Books LLC is now an imprint of M

14/06/2022

David Hirshberg’s recent novel— Jacobo’s Rainbow, winner of 9 literary awards—is a KINDLE MONTHLY DEAL on sale for just $1.99 as an e-book: https://amzn.to/2VyOEq8.

Here’s what Matt Sutherland, Editor-in-Chief, Foreword Reviews had to say: “Setting aside the Great Depression of the 1930s, there are two unforgettable decades that stand out in American consciousness over the past one hundred years: the Roaring twenties and the sixties—and if you’re left wondering what all the hubbub is about, you can’t do better than to check out some of the great books based on those periods: The Great Gatsby, say, or The Sun Also Rises; and for the sixties, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Helter-Skelter, and Slaughterhouse Five would be a nice start.

“In Jacobo’s Rainbow, David Hirshberg is making a bid to join the short list of very special novels about the tumultuous sixties—a time of reckoning as the US finally began to confront systemic racism, poverty, its aggressive use of military force, and other societal ills. Today’s headlines betray a country still engaged in that reckoning fifty-plus years later.”

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09/06/2022

Fig Tree Lit issue #31 (June) was just issued (https://conta.cc/3H9x56T) It features: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES Korean-American leader of Renewal movement says it’s a white world at the top; CHAPTER: Risky Move - An excerpt from “Concealed” by Esther Amini; BLOG: "Certain aspects of the state of publishing” from a guest blogger; SHORT STORY Dream Project by Alan Swyer; SHORT STORY A Dybbuk by Amy Bernstein; CHAPTER Hiding in Plain Sight: A Journey to Everyday Spirituality, by Rabbi Michael Zedek; SHORT STORY: Unbound by Jean Ende; BOOK REVIEW Hands of Gold by Roni Robins, reviewed by Dan Farkas; and CHAPTER 20, “Lag B'Omer” from Abigail Pogrebin’s “My Jewish Year”.

You don't want to miss this! ‌ The Newsletter of Fig Tree Books LLC June 2022: Issue #31 Fredric D. Price, Founder & Editor We are pleased to announce that Fig Tree Books LLC is now an imprint of Mand

01/06/2022

Robert Mandel, publisher of Mandel Vilar Press (MVP), and Fredric Price, publisher of Fig Tree Books LLC (FTB), announced today that the two companies have formed a strategic partnership. Effective immediately, FTB has become an imprint of MVP, and Fredric Price serves as the editor-in-chief of FTB.

Fig Tree’s mission of publishing the best literature of the American Jewish experience dovetails extraordinarily well with Mandel Vilar Press’s mission of bringing underrepresented and diverse literature of the Americas to a wide audience.

For more information, please read the press release at: https://bit.ly/3lQ5qhh.

09/05/2022

Fig Tree Lit issue #30 (May) was just issued (https://conta.cc/3PaWGje). It features: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Mexican writer's novels explore her Sephardic history and crypto-Judaism; CHAPTERS: The Girl Who Knew Everything, by Nina Vida; ESSAY: The Persistence of Yellow, by Lucienne Bloch; SHORT STORY: Sounds in the Silence, by Judith Hanan; BOOK REVIEW: Concealed, by Esther Amini; STORIES: Food Themes, by Alex Yanishevsky; COMEDY: The Tragic and Twisted Tale of The Three Stooges; and Why, Soitenly! by Dan Farkas; ESSAY: Blood Borscht, by Abby Richmond; and CHAPTER 18, “Yom Hashoah” from Abigail Pogrebin’s “My Jewish Year”.

You don't want to miss this! ‌ The Newsletter of Fig Tree Books LLC May 2022: Issue #30 Fredric D. Price, Founder & Publisher OUR MISSION: Through published books, essays, chapters of unpublished book