Ben Yehuda Press

Check out this moving interview with Emil Pitkin, who translated his grandfather's work, "The Penny Is Gone: A Soviet Jew's Meditations on the Jewish Question"

https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/the-penny-is-gone/
“[The Penny is Gone] comes from a parable my grandfather’s father brought from the shtetl, about a boy who was crying because he lost a penny. When a passerby tries to calm him by giving him another, penny, the boy cries again. He says, if I hadn’t lost that one, I’d have two."
“My grandfather, of course, is speaking about the Jews who were leaving Russia. New Jews will be born, but those who might have contributed to their society are gone forever. Those who might have contributed to the arts and to letters and to the sciences will never return."
"The Penny Is Gone: A Soviet Jew's Meditations on the Jewish Question" by Emil Bezverkhny, translated by Emil Pitkin

https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/the-penny-is-gone/
Be sure to wign up here for "The Penny Is Gone" reading event in Teaneck, NJ on Monday, July 20th from 7:30-9pm.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-penny-is-gone-comes-to-teaneck-tickets-1993171736318?aff=oddtdtcreator

This is the Forest of Lost Trees. Not only people, but also trees may uproot themselves from their ground and become befuddled out in the world. Here in the Lost Wood all those wandering, lost trees of every kind have come together.

Binele: A story of a young boy who sets out to find the Land of Endless Holiday – dos land fun eybikn yontev. by B. J. Bialostotzky; Ruth Murphy, translator

https://www.amazon.com/Binele-Endless-Holiday-Yiddish-Rediscoveries/dp/1963475909/

“[Borscht Belt] is a term some people use for the Catskills. Old people and newspapers. Do not call it that when you visit, or your next visit may be to an emergency room.”
Broken Faith: A Story of Murder, Secrets, and a Catskills Synagogue by Mordechai Luchins

https://www.amazon.com/Broken-Faith-Secrets-Catskills-Synagogue/dp/195382935X/