Short Writings

Kantiga—Song

Ladino short story by Jane Mushabac based on the Biblical Song of Songs and set in pandemic New York City. Her English translation nominated for a Pushcart Prize: Jewish Fiction .net (Sept 2023) https://bit.ly/45SaLKD. In Ladino: Aki Yerushalayim (Sept 2021), Proza Literaria, p. 46 ff.
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Un Otro Ermano—Another Brother

Short Ladino play by Jane Mushabac and Leah Varsano. Premiered online 10 January 2021, with actors Robin Perros, Leah Varsano, Bob Freud, and Jane Mushabac.
YouTube with English subtitles: Un Otro Ermano—Another Brother »

Pasha: Pensamientos de David Aroughetti—Pasha: Ruminations of David Aroughetti

Ladino short story written by Jane Mushabac with pen name Shalach Manot. Her English translation has had readings in many U.S. cities. AJS Perspectives, Spring 2019 Patriarchy Issue. See Pasha: Ruminations of David Aroughetti. Rpt. from Midstream, 2005 Yiddish/Ladino issue. The story in its original Ladino appeared in 2011 in the first year of publication by the first contemporary periodical worldwide to publish long Ladino pieces, Sephardic Horizons »

The Hidden Heart of America

Review essay on Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Bellevue Literary Review (Fall/Winter 2019).
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Going Out on a Limb: Joha

Review essay on Folktales of Joha collected by Matilda Koén-Sarano. Conversations (Autumn 2017).
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Food

Short story on a friendship in a dystopia. This is My New Homeland: Life Stories of Turkish Jewish Immigrants, II. Ed. Rifat N. Bali, LIBRA KITAP (2017).

The Phenomenon of Rivka Abiry

Review essay on Abiry’s collection of Ladino short stories, Una Lagrima, Una Riza, Lo Ke Mos Konta Rivka—Tears and Laughter: The Stories Rivka Tells Us. Essay in Ladino: El Amaneser (Istanbul newspaper October 2017). Essay in English: Sephardic Horizons (Winter/Spring 2017 issue).

Major Sephardic Novelists: The Risks They Take

Guest Editor’s Note. Jane Mushabac introduces topic she developed and articles she selected on major Sephardic novelists, Sephardic Horizons (Fall/Winter 2016).

Diversity and the Jews

Essay on readings of “Pasha” at 8 City University of New York campuses. Conversations (Autumn 2014).

Sephardic Jewry: Not Built in a Day

Review essay on After Expulsion: 1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry by Jonathan Ray. Jewish Currents (Autumn 2013).

Seven Songs

Essay. Conversations (Spring 2012). Translated into Turkish by Alegresse Delail, ”Yedi Sarki,” online.

Is “Sephardic” a Name Brand?

Essay. Conversations (Spring 2010).

New Jersey

Short story. Chautauqua Special issue, Words and Music (issue 7, 2010).

Ishmael or Ishfemale: Gender and Humor

Essay. The Columbia Journal of American Studies online, Featured Article of the Month (Fall 2007). www.columbia.edu

Rebecca Touro Lopez

Signed article in Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, Jewish Women's Archive. https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lopez-rebecca-touro. Rpt. from Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. CD-ROM, Jewish Publication Society (2006).

Homero Aridjis’s Picaresque Novel: A Mexican Non-Jew Writes about Spain’s Expulsion of the Jews

Review essay on 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezón of Castile by Homero Aridjis. Midstream Yiddish/Ladino issue (Summer 2006).

Judith and the Theme of Sapientia et Fortitudo

Essay on tenth-century epic. Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism. Ed. Jelena Krstovic, Vol. 68, Gale (2004).

Notes on Teaching Moby-Dick

Essay. Approaches to Teaching Melville’s “Moby-Dick.” Ed. Martin Bickman, Modern Language Association (1985, 3rd printing 1997).

Book Review of Melville and Repose

Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance by John Bryant. Modern Philology (May 1996).

Brief aus New York an besorgte Deutsche—Letter from New York to Concerned Germans

Essay translated into German by Matthias Fienbork. Freibeuter (Berlin quarterly) Special issue, international commentary on German violence against immigrants (1993).

Jewish Themes and Thoughts in the Judeo-Spanish Refrán

Essay by Matilda Cohen Sarano translated from Ladino by Jane Mushabac. The Sephardic Journey: 1492-1992. Yeshiva University Museum (1992).

Sunday

Short story. Survival Prose. An anthology from the St. Marks Fiction Workshop. Introduction by Seymour Krim. Eds. John Gerald and George Blecher, Bobbs Merrill (1971).

That Ol’ Time Unionism, With a Futuristic Beat

Village Voice (October 23, 1969).

Review of Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor

Village Voice (July 3, 1969).

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