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Fig Tree Books Our aim is to bring you the best literature (novels and non-fiction, including memoirs) of the Ameri

Fig Tree Books LLC publishes literary fiction and nonfiction titles that highlight the American Jewish experience. Our authors provide thought-provoking and entertaining perspectives on all facets of history and daily life through a modern Jewish perspective. Our collection documents, celebrates, and unpacks the issues of our times through story and the rich lens of the faith. Through all of our t

itles, you will gain a deeper appreciation for what is meant by the American Jewish experience, insight that will appeal to your understanding of this community, regardless of your own faith. Providing both entertaining stories and thought-provoking insight into the issues of our time, our authors meticulously craft works that will not disappoint the individual reader or book club.

Fig Tree Lit Dec 2025 () Issue #73 is now available at https://conta.cc/471gHUHIncludes: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Joinin...
04/12/2025

Fig Tree Lit Dec 2025 () Issue #73 is now available at https://conta.cc/471gHUH
Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Joining a Hated People: My Journey of Conversion and Becoming an Orthodox Jew
NOVEL: Did You Have The Life You Wanted? by Andrea Simon
NON-FICTION BOOK: Pass the Trauma, Please, by Todd Diamond - Finding Humor In His Father's Holocaust Story
MONTHLY BLOG: We are no longer welcome, by Yardenne Greenspan
FICTION STORIES: You've Told Me Before, by Jennifer Anne Moses
ESSAY: Calling All People of Principle, by Thane Rosen- baum
NON-FICTION BOOK: As a Jew, by Sarah Sarah Hurwitz
SHORT STORY: Food and Fur, by Ephrat Huss
NOVEL: Proles, by Barry Bergman
NON-FICTION BOOK: Heart of a Stranger, by Angela Buchdahl

Email from Fig Tree Books LLC You don't want to miss this!   The Newsletter of Fig Tree Books December '25: Issue #73 --- Fredric D. Price, Founder & Publisher OUR MISSION: Through published books, es

Fig Tree Lit Nov 2025 () Issue #72 is now available at https://conta.cc/4pJo0YaIncludes: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: 'Arab ...
06/11/2025

Fig Tree Lit Nov 2025 () Issue #72 is now available at https://conta.cc/4pJo0Ya
Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: 'Arab Jewish’ actor Ari’el Stachel has a message about antisemitism for Zohran Mamdani
BOOK: American Maccabbee, by Andrew Porwancher
POEM - Used to Say, by Harriet Shenkman
BOOK: What Jewish Looks Like, by Liz Kleinrock and Caroline Kusin Pritchard and illustrated by Iris Gottlieb
ESSAY: This town lost most of its Jews, but not its Judaism, by Benyamin Cohen
FIRST CHAPTER OF BOOK - My Mother's Son, by David Hirshberg
MONTHLY BLOG: The spy who stayed out of the heat
BOOK: Pass the Trauma, Please, by Todd Diamond

Email from Fig Tree Books LLC You don't want to miss this!   The Newsletter of Fig Tree Books Nov '25: Issue #72 --- Fredric D. Price, Founder & Publisher OUR MISSION: Through published books, essays,

Fig Tree Lit Oct 2025 () Issue #72 is now available at https://conta.cc/4lxxlPEIncludes: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: New ma...
05/10/2025

Fig Tree Lit Oct 2025 () Issue #72 is now available at https://conta.cc/4lxxlPE
Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: New mayor of Florence, Italy, is the first woman and first Jew to lead the historic city
SHORT STORY: Letter from a Wartime (Kibbutz) Gardener, by Luca Damiani
MEMOIR: Where the Night Train Ends, by Anat Shmulovich
MONTHLY BLOG: The White Man Who Pretended to Be Black to Get Published, by River Page
SHORT STORY: The Old Rosh Yeshiva Engages in Idle Speculation, by Michael Orbach
VIDEO: The Forgotten Exodus- The Untold Stories of Jews from Arab Nations and Iran
BOOK: Pass the Trauma, Please, by Todd Diamond
ESSAY: Jews Are Warning You Again
MINI-NOVELLA: The Shofar Blowers, by Haya Molnar

Email from Fig Tree Books LLC You don't want to miss this!   The Newsletter of Fig Tree Books October '25: Issue #71 --- Fredric D. Price, Founder & Publisher OUR MISSION: Through published books, ess

Fig Tree Lit Sept 2025 () Issue #70 is now available at https://conta.cc/41AF7Rs. Includes: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Jew...
08/09/2025

Fig Tree Lit Sept 2025 () Issue #70 is now available at https://conta.cc/41AF7Rs. Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Jewish & Black: Finding my identity with the Rebbe
ONLINE COURSE from TIKVAH: Meet the Jewish Minds Who Transformed American Culture
ESSAY: The Bridge Between Us, by Neil Plakcy
BOOK: The Secret Orphanage, by Barbara Josselsohn
ESSAY: Meeting Janet, the Jewish Love Story of Howard Wach, by Howard Lovy
BOOK: When the Stones Speak, by Doron Spielman
BOOK - STUDY GUIDE: It Takes Two to Torah, by Abigail Pogrebin and Rabbi Dov Linzer
ESSAY: Israel Eliminationism, by Henry Kopel
MONTHLY BLOG: The Death and Life of the Streaight White Man's Novel, by Marc Tracy

Fig Tree Lit August 2025 () Issue #69 is now available at https://conta.cc/3J004z2. Includes: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: M...
06/08/2025

Fig Tree Lit August 2025 () Issue #69 is now available at https://conta.cc/3J004z2. Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: My Jewish Family Hid in China for 250 Years
SPORTS: The Yeshiva University men’s basketball team
FILM: Centered, about Senator Joe Lieberman, written and directed by Jonathan Gruber
ESSAY: Shema, by LenaMunzer
BOOK: The Truth About the Tooth Fairy (Miriam's Magical Creature Files #1), by Leah Cypress, illustrated by Sarah Lynne Reul
BOOK: Mixed, by Tamar Hodes
ESSAY: The Culture Clash that Wasn't, by Michael Gold
BOOK: The Meaning of the Murder, by Walter Levis
ESSAY: We Don't Care! by Sarah Tuttle-Singer
MONTHLY BLOG: Shelf censorship - How US publishing boycotts Israel and its supporters, by Liel Leibovitz

Fig Tree Lit July 2025 () Issue #68 is now available at https://conta.cc/4lxSFF1. Includes: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: A p...
02/07/2025

Fig Tree Lit July 2025 () Issue #68 is now available at https://conta.cc/4lxSFF1. Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: A pocket guide to the Jewish grandmothers of Mexico, by
BOOK: On Democracies and Death Cults, by
LIFESTYLE: Berkeley Moshav
SHORT STORY: Vagabond, by Larry Lefkowitz by
SOCIAL MEDIA: The Social Media Sensation Who Discovered Her Jewish Soul by Ellie Zoller
JEWS OF THE UNIVERSE: Introducing Vanessa Hidary, by Elissa Wald
NEW BOOKS FROM CENTRO PRIMO LEVI: The Renegade, by Aiel Toaff and The Trunk, by Alberto Vigevani
FIG TREE BOOKS BACKLIST: My Mother's Son and Jacobo's Rainbow, by & Safekeeping, by Jessamyn Hope

Fig Tree Lit June 2025 Issue #67 is now available at https://conta.cc/3ZhUcGN. Includes: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Meet T...
05/06/2025

Fig Tree Lit June 2025 Issue #67 is now available at https://conta.cc/3ZhUcGN. Includes:

JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Meet These Hispanic Jews Impacting the World
ESSAY: Two Christians Made a Show about Jews. It’s Phenomenal, By Batya Ungar-Sargon
BOOK: Beyond Proportionality- Israel's Just War in Gaza, by Thane Rosenbaum
SHORT STORY: Laugh or Die, by Alan Swyer
ESSAY: Cracking the Code- What Torah Trope Are You? by Rabbi Sharon Forman
ESSAY: How America’s Jews Became America’s ‘New Blacks’
MEMOIR: Thread of Life, My Russian Legacy, by Jennifer Kavanagh
PODCAST: Tikvah's Building the Impossible Dream: The History of Zionism
ESSAY: Open Season, by Eve Barlow

Fig Tree Lit May 2025 Issue #66 is now available at https://conta.cc/3GIfUgD. Includes: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Typical...
06/05/2025

Fig Tree Lit May 2025 Issue #66 is now available at https://conta.cc/3GIfUgD. Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Typical Scottish Jewish girl makes home in Zambia after dumping legal career in UK
REVIEW: 'The Message' by Ta-Nehisi Coates, by Mike Coté - Coates the Charlatan
BOOKS: the post-Holocaust trilogy - The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, and Elijah Visible, by - In honor of Yom HaShoah, 27th of Nisan April 25
ESSAY: Unlock Sephardi Culture and Connection with these 10 Ladino Phrases, by Ellie Rudee
MEMOIR: Internee Number 6, by Maria Eisenstein
PODCAST: Jewish Crossroads with Tamar Ish Shalom - Conversation with David Wolpe - Jewish Identity in Times of Crisis
REVIEW: Tablets Shat­tered: The End of an Amer­i­can Jew­ish Cen­tu­ry and the Future of Jew­ish Life, by Joshua Leifer
COOKBOOK: Sabor Judio: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook, by Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle

Fig Tree Lit April 2025 Issue #65 is now available at https://conta.cc/3R7AtoD. Includes: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Meet ...
07/04/2025

Fig Tree Lit April 2025 Issue #65 is now available at https://conta.cc/3R7AtoD. Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Meet 4 Black Jewish leaders
NOVEL: Counting Backwards, by
ESSAY: The vanishing Stars of David, by Austin Reid
NOVEL: The Trade Off, by Samantha Greene Woodruff
MEMOIR: Under A Red Sky, by Haya Molnar
ESSAY: The Man Whose Name Lived On, by Michelle Clark
SHORT STORY: A Game of War, by Douglas Chait
BOOK: One Little Goat, by

Fig Tree Lit March 2025 Issue #64 is now available at https://conta.cc/4haebwT. Includes: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Tani ...
06/03/2025

Fig Tree Lit March 2025 Issue #64 is now available at https://conta.cc/4haebwT. Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Tani Prell
GUEST COLUMNIST: , Cause and Effect
NOVEL: The Baker of Lost Memories, by
ESSAY: Is it the end of a Jewish Golden Age? by Stephen Daniel Arnoff
ARTICLE: Finding his faith - The Mayor of Providence converts to Judaism, by Stephen Machado
NOVEL: The Midwives' Escape From Egypt to Jericho, by
ESSAY: Why I won't teach at Columbia, by
ARTICLE: How a Jewish teen’s description of New York life in 1945 is going viral on TikTok
NEW BOOK RELEASE: It Takes Two to Torah, by &

Fig Tree Lit February 2025 Issue #63 is now available at https://conta.cc/4gsjxUa. Includes: JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Ke...
05/02/2025

Fig Tree Lit February 2025 Issue #63 is now available at https://conta.cc/4gsjxUa. Includes:
JEWS OF DIFFERENT HUES: Kelly Lynch, GEN Z
NOVEL: Viva, Violetta & Verdi, by Howard Jay Smith
SHORT STORY: The Walker, by Haya Molnar
ESSAY: The New Jewish Question at CCNY, By Michael Gold
NOVEL: Adam Unrehearsed, by Don Futterman
POETRY, PHILOSOPHY AND A GAMBLING RABBI: A colorful history of Venice’s Jewish ghetto, by Rich Tenorio
ADAPTATION OF A CHAPTER FROM A NOVEL: The pet rabbit and the year that Rabin died, by Ephrat Huss
NOVEL: The Last Dekreptizer, by Howard Langer
NEW BOOK RELEASE: It Takes Two to Torah, by Abigail Pogrebin and Rabbi Dov Linzer

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Fig Tree Books

Fig Tree Books LLC publishes literary fiction and nonfiction titles that highlight the American Jewish experience. Our authors provide thought-provoking and entertaining perspectives on all facets of history and daily life through a modern Jewish perspective. Our collection documents, celebrates, and unpacks the issues of our times through story and the rich lens of the faith.

Through all of our titles, you will gain a deeper appreciation for what is meant by the American Jewish experience, insight that will appeal to your understanding of this community, regardless of your own faith. Providing both entertaining stories and thought-provoking insight into the issues of our time, our authors meticulously craft works that will not disappoint the individual reader or book club.