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The stories in this collection are set at the literary salon hosted in the mid-twentieth century at the Jerusalem residence of painter Anna Ticho and her husband, ophthalmologist Dr. Albert Ticho. Each story features as its protagonist a different character, all of them migrant European women writers, poets, or painters. Inspired by historical figures, among them Anna Ticho, Rachel Bluwstein, Zelda Schneurson-Mishkovsky, Else Lasker-Schüler, Leah Goldberg, and Nelly Sachs, these characters reappear in the interlinked short stories. Meeting on a regular basis to share their creative work and discuss the challenges of writing and painting in a new and unfamiliar environment, language, and culture, these women shaped the emerging State of Israel’s literary, artistic, cultural, and intellectual scenes.

Available from Vine Leaves Press

21 October 2025

The novel narrates a young aspiring poet and literature scholar’s quest to acquire Spanish citizenship in order to gain access to the Royal Spanish Archives. Simultaneously facing the terminal illness of her beloved mentor, Bina, and the departure of her lover, Soli, the protagonist, Kitra Vardi, retraces her family lineage back to the eleventh century, prior to the existence of the Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of all Jews from Spain, following the family’s migrations from Spain to Morocco, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria, and Israel. As she rediscovers her Sephardic origins through her study of the Zohar and her mystical encounters with her ancestors, Kitra reclaims and embraces her identity as a contemporary Sephardic woman, highlighting the importance of literary texts – both ancient and modern – in the construction of that identity.

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Running Wild Publishing

This coming-of-age memoir follows the writer's development as an artist under the the influence of an exceptionally inspiring art history professor in Quebec's unique CEGEP system. As the adolescent writer learns to recognize the value of art to society and redefines her identity as an aspiring artist, her beloved teacher's condition deteriorates into a terminal illness, and she passes away a year later, leaving the bereft writer to pursue her literary ambitions on her own.

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Read an excerpt here