Books
His Hundred Years, A Tale
His Hundred Years, A Tale by Shalach Manot is Jane Mushabac’s novel about an Ottoman Jew living by his wits in Turkey and New York
“The life of a salesman, Turkish style—this man is very different from Willy Loman and from a different part of the world. He begins and ends his life as a peddler. In fact, selling pervades this book from beginning to end, as a kind of crazy passion… a brilliantly told tale.”
—Walter Zev Feldman, author of Music of the Ottoman Court
A Short and Remarkable History of New York City
Jane Mushabac and Angela Wigan
A “Best of the Best” of the American Association of University Presses
“Deft and delightful,”—Phillip Lopate; “handy, instructive, and entertaining,” —Mike Wallace; “a mind-opening chronicle”—Gitta Sereny; “the broad strokes of a simple chronology interspersed with social and cultural information. Fun!” —Ric Burns
Mazal Bueno: A Portrait in Song of the Spanish Jews
CD of radio play commissioned for National Public Radio broadcast
Written by Jane Mushabac, narrated by Tovah Feldshuh, sung by Western Wind
After the Expulsion from Spain in 1492, Jews were welcomed in the Ottoman Empire, North Africa and the Middle East. Hear their music with its beautiful kamenc, oud, rebec, vielle, violin, recorder and dumbek, as the narrative leads us through the life cycle of adolescence and courtship, wife, husband, family—singing while cooking—birth and death.
“Superb … extremely worthwhile.” Detroit Free Press
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Melville's Humor: A Critical Study
Melville’s fiction and his reading of French, Spanish, and English works
“Bold and ambitious” — Sewanee Review; “A fascinating thesis” — Modern Fiction Studies; “Astute” — The Year’s Work in English Studies; “A fine and witty piece of criticism” — Irving Howe; “She understands the rough as well as the even side of Melville’s unpredictable mind, and has reached the extraordinary center of his work” — Alfred Kazin