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Learn More About Abigail Pogrebin
Posted on March 2, 2022
Abigail Pogrebin is the author of My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew, with a Foreword by A.J. Jacobs that we published in 2017. If you haven’t yet had a chance to read his book, you can get a hard copy for less than $15, or an e-book for just $2.99 by clicking on […]
Learn More About Thane Rosenbaum
Posted on February 1, 2022
Thane Rosenbaum is the author of Saving Free Speech … from Itself with a Foreword by Bret Stephens that we published in 2020. If you haven’t yet had a chance to read his book, you can get an Audio copy for Free with an Audible trial, or an E-book for just $2.99. Thane has an […]
Writing something about dialogue between Eve and Adam
Posted on January 3, 2022
Bill Robbins, whose recent essay The Walls was published in November 2021 issue of Fig Tree Lit has raised an intriguing question on a line in Genesis, which he proposes that any of us provide some words that we believe would fit within a conversation between Adam and Eve. Bill writes, “Here’s a proposal for […]
George Washington’s Promise
Posted on November 30, 2021
When I decided to create a niche publishing company that combined my interests in Jewish literature with American civilization, I wanted a name that blended these two pursuits. So I traveled back more than two centuries, to August 21, 1790, and a letter from President George Washington. Although the experience of Jews as a group […]
Does Quality Control Still Exist?
Posted on November 5, 2021
Have you ever noticed that both parts of the term Quality Control (QC) seem to have gone downhill in the last few years? I’ve discussed this with my business and social friends and the consensus is that the problem is rampant and getting worse. Mistakes that used to be rare in the book world are […]
Three Fig Tree Book authors answer the questions that they are most frequently asked
Posted on October 1, 2021
Abigail Pogrebin, author of My Jewish Year:18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew — The question I get asked most about this book is: What was your favorite holiday of them all? It is, in a way, a funny question to be asked about a calendar tradition that has endured for so many generations because it’s not as […]
Baseball, Judaism, and Literature
Posted on September 4, 2021
I’m a big baseball fan, so it’s not surprising that I have a collection of baseball cards of Jewish major leaguers or a library of baseball books that I turn to repeatedly, even though I know the score. You can understand, then, that I was intrigued by an article in the Jewish Journal about Chaim […]
Call for (very) short story submissions
Posted on August 11, 2021
On September 30, 2004 Philip Roth’s novel about what could’ve happened when a proto-fascist (Charles Lindbergh) is elected president of the U.S. was published. The Plot Against America was, of course, a brilliant piece of literary fiction, whose opening sentence, “Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.” could describe what many of us were […]
Fake News isn’t just a US problem – it affects Israel and Jews throughout the world
Posted on July 25, 2021
Ben-Dror Yemini has written a book Industry of Lies that needs to be read by Jews, regardless of where they live, especially since we are living through an era of anti-Semitism that hasn’t been seen since the 1930s. Some of this is disguised as anti-Zionism, but most people (except the the woke left) see these […]
Reply to The Rant
Posted on June 21, 2021
We received more comments for The Rant by Anonymous (Blog in the June edition of Fig Tree Lit) than we have for any other post. The following reply is from an individual who also wishes to have a name withheld. It is representative of most of the replies to that blog post. Reading The […]