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 (Sept 2023): JewishFiction.com. In Ladino: Aki Yerushalayim (Sept 2021), Proza Literaria, pp. 46-51.
Kantiga—Song »
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 »
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 »
Review essay on Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Bellevue Literary Review (Fall/Winter 2019).
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Review essay on Folktales of Joha collected by Matilda Koén-Sarano. Conversations (Autumn 2017).
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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).
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).
Guest Editor’s Note. Jane Mushabac introduces topic she developed and articles she selected on major Sephardic novelists, Sephardic Horizons (Fall/Winter 2016).
Essay on readings of “Pasha” at 8 City University of New York campuses. Conversations (Autumn 2014).
Review essay on After Expulsion: 1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry by Jonathan Ray. Jewish Currents (Autumn 2013).
Essay. Conversations (Spring 2012). Translated into Turkish by Alegresse Delail, ”Yedi Sarki,” online.
Essay. The Columbia Journal of American Studies online, Featured Article of the Month (Fall 2007). www.columbia.edu
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).
Review essay on 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezón of Castile by Homero Aridjis. Midstream Yiddish/Ladino issue (Summer 2006).
Essay on tenth-century epic. Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism. Ed. Jelena Krstovic, Vol. 68, Gale (2004).
Essay. Approaches to Teaching Melville’s “Moby-Dick.” Ed. Martin Bickman, Modern Language Association (1985, 3rd printing 1997).
Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance by John Bryant. Modern Philology (May 1996).
Essay translated into German by Matthias Fienbork. Freibeuter (Berlin quarterly) Special issue, international commentary on German violence against immigrants (1993).
Essay by Matilda Cohen Sarano translated from Ladino by Jane Mushabac. The Sephardic Journey: 1492-1992. Yeshiva University Museum (1992).