Shalach Manot
His Hundred Years, A Tale
His Hundred Years, A Tale by Shalach Manot is a novel about a Turkish Jew, a peddler, an everyman, in the fast-deteriorating Ottoman Empire and in New York.
“With its crisp detail and dappled mosaic narrative, His Hundred Years is a Jewish immigrant tale with a difference. The initial milieu is Sephardic, Turkish, Ladino, not European, and the protagonist, a buoyant and irrepressible salesman, is the furthest thing from Arthur Miller’s defeated figure. This is a finely written novel.”
—Morris Dickstein, author of Gates of Eden and Dancing in the Dark
Pasha: Ruminations of David Aroughetti
This short story appeared in AJS Perspectives in the Spring 2019 Patriarchy Issue. See Pasha: Ruminations of David Aroughetti. It has had many readings in New York, Massachusetts, California, and Washington. The story originally appeared in Manot’s English translation in Midstream in the 2005 Yiddish/Ladino issue.
Pasha: Pensamientos de David Aroughetti
Here’s the story in Manot’s original Ladino. It appeared in 2011 in the online journal Sephardic Horizons »
Canakkale, 1911
This short story appeared in 2011 in Conversations.