City of Many Days traces the interwoven lives of residents of Jerusalem in the years of the British mandate, the decades that formed its modern character. Hareven, through her unique polyphonic writing, creates characters who are instantly empathetic, intriguing, and credible - in a few lines, we know them. Homebodies and prostitutes, Arabs and Jews, patriots and recluses, military men and country cooks, rebels and informers, and many more make up an unforgettable mosaic of the shimmering city, Jerusalem.

City of Many Days

Literature & Fiction

Hareven, Shulamith

Literary

Modern Times Publishing

In By Your Blood You Will Live, Leyb Rochman chronicles his life of survival during the Holocaust. Begun in hiding, and completed in the years after World War II, Rochman’s chronicle reads more like a novel than a memoir. Published in Yiddish in Paris, where it won the 1949 Hoffer-Leyb Prize, and first appearing in English in 1983 as part of the Holocaust Library, By Your Blood You Will Live makes palpable both the horrors and the hopes of individuals who did all they could to live rather than die by their blood.Featuring an introduction by Aharon Appelfeld.

By Your Blood You Will Live: A Chronicle of Survival

Rochman, Leyb

Biographies & Memoirs

The Jewish Problem and An Epistle to the Hebrews

History

Lazarus, Emma

Historical Study & Educational Resources

The Old Alien by the Kitchen Window brings together a selection of writing by one of America’s greatest lost voices of social justice, Louis Adamic, whose life was as adventurous and idealistic as his death was mysterious and tragic. As an immigrant writer, Adamic explored the United States that most people of his time wanted to ignore: the dynamic, multicultural, interracial, and multilingual landscape of its ethnic and racial minorities. Adamic took this same energy to his native land, writing about political struggles in Yugoslavia before and after World War II, and became an ardent supporter of Marshal Tito—making him a target during the McCarthy era. This volume offers readers access to the entire breadth of Adamic’s cultural project: the ascendency of diversity in America.\nBorn in Slovenia, Louis Adamic (1898-1951) immigrated to the United States in 1913 at the age of fifteen, fought in World War I, and later became a writer, translator, and editor focused on immigration and race in America. He was the author of over fifteen books, including memoirs and reportage. He was also founding editor of Common Ground, a literary magazine published by the Common Council for American Unity, of which he was the director. Adamic was known as a vocal social critic who fought for immigrant rights, cultural pluralism, and racial tolerance. While his early books focus on European ethnic groups who had immigrated to the United States in the 19th– and 20th centuries, his later work focuses on Black, Latinx, and Asian Americans, venturing into question of interracial marriage and the cultural clash that exists between what he called “old-stock” Americans and the nation’s ethnic minorities.

The Old Alien by the Kitchen Window: Selected Writings

Adamic, Louis

Americas

The Hard-Boiled Virgin

Newman, Frances

Laughing in the Jungle: The Autobiography of an Immigrant in America

Community & Culture

The Chauvinist and Other Stories features twenty-two stories of Japanese-American life, ranging in settings from pre-WWII era California, to wartime internment camps, to the postwar Nisei experience. As an Asian Times reviewer notes when The Chauvinist first appeared, Mori "cannot fail to reach [his readers] because he is an honest man, speaking from his own experience, his own suffering and happiness, his own real and human life." The writer Hisaye Yamamoto, in the original introduction to this collection, declared Mori "indisputably the pioneer of Japanese American literature."The collection's republication in this volume marks the first time these stories are widely available in over forty years.

The Chauvinist and Other Stories

Mori, Toshio

United States

Founded in 2002, jmww is a weekly online journal of writing-publishing the best in poetry, fiction, flash fiction, essays, and interviews. Stories published in the journal have appeared in Best American Essays, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, BIFFY, Best of the Net, and the VERA. The journal has also released six print anthologies and three hand-assembled poetry chapbook contest winners. This anthology picks up where the last one left off-with works from 2013 and onward picked and voted on by present and former jmww editors.

jmww (2013-2022): A Modern Times Anthology

Michalski, Jen

Poetry

"The foundations of society are more seriously shaken today than they were in Socrates's time. Men who, reasonably enough, see no hope of preserving the ancestral order, are building new societies of one sort or another, from all of which certain fundamental values are absent. It seems worthwhile, then, to recall a man who under similar circumstances stood for the spirit of free inquiry, for the inviolability of the individual, with that lonely honesty and courage which are the badge of human dignity." - From the "Author's Note""Mask of Silenus deserves both reading and pondering." - New York Times

Mask of Silenus: A Novel about Socrates

Deutsch, Babette

Genre Fiction

Saddies, a collection of single-panel cartoons, was the first book by writer, translator, and essayist David Stromberg. Funded by a public arts grant from the UCLA Student Union, while still an undergraduate in applied math, Saddies was published in October 2000 as an art book designed by fellow UCLA student Jancy Liu. Inspired by the cartoons of James Thurber and the art pocketbooks of Ed Ruscha, Saddies brought together the literary tone of the 1920s and 1930s with the conceptualism of the 1960s and 1970s, placing added focus on the poetics of image and text. It was sold at independent book shops, museum stores, art fairs, and on the streets of Los Angeles and New York.Armed with cash from the sales of his first book, David Stromberg again teamed up with Jancy Liu to design Confusies, published in October 2002. As a follow-up to the first collection, Confusies placed greater emphasis on the thematic layers of the cartoons. It also introduced increasingly intricate drawings inspired by the literary cartoonist Edward Gorey. Whereas Saddies was printed with a laser-based printing machine, Confusies was produced using standard offset printing, creating a richer image on the page. Building on the success of the first book, Confusies quickly found its audience.In 2003, David Stromberg produced a third volume, Desperaddies, this time taking on the design of the book. Appropriating elements from the Paris-based Olympia Press, Stromberg created a cartoon book that would pass for a pocketbook novel, structuring the table of contents as a literary narrative. While each drawing worked independently, the collection as a whole laid out a thematic story of young love, alienation, childhood trauma, and the need for comic relief. It was the last art book Stromberg created using a pocketbook format.

Saddies: A Cartoon Trilogy

Comics & Graphic Novels

Stromberg, David

Graphic Novels

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