Shira Gorshman’s piquant historical novel Hannah’s Sheep and Cattle nestles an abiding love story amid the interwar upheavals of Soviet Russia. In 1930, on a Jewish commune on the wide Crimean steppe, Hanah is twenty-three, the... Read More
Mournful and animate, Yenta Mash’s stories ingather Romanian shtetl lives before, during, and after Soviet disruptions. Each story is a microcosm of the Jewish diaspora: “as long as they bother to go after us, we can be sure we still... Read More
"Have Fun in Burma" follows Adela, just out of high school, through her summer of self-discovery. No pizza binges and thoughtless beachside flings for this heroine, though. Rosalie Metro’s earnest young lead is up for more of a... Read More