Jane Mushabac writes books, short stories, and essays. Her writing has been performed on NPR and appeared in Jewish Fiction.net, Bellevue Literary Review, Jewish Currents, AJS Perspectives, Chautauqua and Columbia Journal of American Studies. Most of her writing is in English—her writing in Ladino has appeared in Aki Yerushalayim and on YouTube. The New York Ladino Day events she curates feature Ladino music, talks by scholars, and recently her two short Ladino plays.
In her novel, His Hundred Years, A Tale, a Turkish peddler lives by his wits. She wrote the book with the pen name Shalach Manot. “Beautifully compelling…. a very Turkish novel,” Ari Goldman. “Rowdy and absorbing, modern and ancient, provocative and calm,” Tovah Feldshuh. “A Jewish immigrant tale with a difference,” Morris Dickstein.
The novel is available on Amazon.