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We are proud of the beautiful and ambitious books we published in 2025. We hope you take time to read and share these incredible works. We’re excited to release even more titles in 2026.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We are proud of the beautiful and ambitious books we published in 2025. We hope you take time to read and share these incredible works. We’re excited to release even more titles in 2026.
To become a member, visit https://loom.ly/ZapZX48.
To donate, go to https://loom.ly/ZapZX48?form=FUNCSYHNLEQ.
To become a member, visit https://loom.ly/ZapZX48.
To donate, go to https://loom.ly/ZapZX48?form=FUNCSYHNLEQ.
Stav Appel’s (@torah.tarot) newly released The Torah in the Tarot features a moving foreword by the poet Ariana Reines (@arianareines). We’re excited to share that you can now read it on our digital column Otiyot.
Read: https://loom.ly/h53qdo8
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Read: https://loom.ly/h53qdo8
Order: https://loom.ly/b2tuUv0
Foreword: The Torah in the Tarot
The foreword to Stav Appel's The Torah in the Tarot, written by poet Ariana Reines.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Stav Appel’s (@torah.tarot) newly released The Torah in the Tarot features a moving foreword by the poet Ariana Reines (@arianareines). We’re excited to share that you can now read it on our digital column Otiyot.
Read: https://loom.ly/h53qdo8
Order: https://loom.ly/b2tuUv0
Read: https://loom.ly/h53qdo8
Order: https://loom.ly/b2tuUv0
We are thrilled to be tabling at the sixth-annual Press Play fair in Brooklyn on December 13th and December 14th. Organized by Pioneer Works, this two-day event is full of books, records, art, ephemera, and conversations.
Reserve tickets here: https://loom.ly/LD-k6fU
Reserve tickets here: https://loom.ly/LD-k6fU
Press Play 2025
Our sixth edition of Press Play, a weekend-long fair of books, records, art, ephemera, talks, and workshops, returns on December 13–14, 2025. Showcasing...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We are thrilled to be tabling at the sixth-annual Press Play fair in Brooklyn on December 13th and December 14th. Organized by Pioneer Works, this two-day event is full of books, records, art, ephemera, and conversations.
Reserve tickets here: https://loom.ly/LD-k6fU
Reserve tickets here: https://loom.ly/LD-k6fU
Our book sponsorship opportunities offer readers another key way to directly champion the creation of new works.
We invite you to join us through Ayin’s book sponsorship & program naming opportunities.
Please find our sponsorship opportunities here:
https://loom.ly/F8JKz5c
We invite you to join us through Ayin’s book sponsorship & program naming opportunities.
Please find our sponsorship opportunities here:
https://loom.ly/F8JKz5c
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Our book sponsorship opportunities offer readers another key way to directly champion the creation of new works.
We invite you to join us through Ayin’s book sponsorship & program naming opportunities.
Please find our sponsorship opportunities here:
https://loom.ly/F8JKz5c
We invite you to join us through Ayin’s book sponsorship & program naming opportunities.
Please find our sponsorship opportunities here:
https://loom.ly/F8JKz5c
As 2025 draws to a close, we wanted to thank our readers, members, beloved supporters, and visionary authors, partners, and collaborators—as well as our dedicated staff and board. Everything we do is possible because of all of you. We thank you all for another extraordinary year.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
As 2025 draws to a close, we wanted to thank our readers, members, beloved supporters, and visionary authors, partners, and collaborators—as well as our dedicated staff and board. Everything we do is possible because of all of you. We thank you all for another extraordinary year.
In the next essay from our Embers of the Ottoman Empire folio, “Stamps and Ink,” Liora R. Halperin recalls finding a curious collection of stamps—as well as tensions between Jewish groups during the British Mandate in Palestine.
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Stamps and Ink: Post-Ottoman Memory in a Jerusalem Archive
Somehow, the stamps concretized an important record of their story. They showed how these people navigated the transition to British political and Zionist communal rule with an ambivalent mix of national pride, grievances about neglect, and questions about whether and how to contribute to the Zionist project in ways that honored the legacies of their families.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In the next essay from our Embers of the Ottoman Empire folio, “Stamps and Ink,” Liora R. Halperin recalls finding a curious collection of stamps—as well as tensions between Jewish groups during the British Mandate in Palestine.
https://loom.ly/FqLTvNM
https://loom.ly/FqLTvNM
Forthcoming from Ayin in 2027: Madison Margolin’s Judaism Is Psychedelic, an essential guide to navigating psychedelic experience through a Jewish lens. Full book description to come.
Preorder the book now: https://loom.ly/Ne6KAdE
Preorder the book now: https://loom.ly/Ne6KAdE
Judaism Is Psychedelic: A Practical Guide
Judaism Is Psychedelic is an essential guide to navigating psychedelic experience through a Jewish lens.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Forthcoming from Ayin in 2027: Madison Margolin’s Judaism Is Psychedelic, an essential guide to navigating psychedelic experience through a Jewish lens. Full book description to come.
Preorder the book now: https://loom.ly/Ne6KAdE
Preorder the book now: https://loom.ly/Ne6KAdE
Now available for preorder: Turn It & Turn It: Post-Secular Essays and Poems, an electric collection of essays and poems by America’s most prominent feminist Jewish poet and critic, Alicia Ostriker.
Forthcoming from Ayin 7/28/2026. Preorder: https://loom.ly/y_Y2uhE.
Forthcoming from Ayin 7/28/2026. Preorder: https://loom.ly/y_Y2uhE.
Turn It & Turn It: Post-Secular Essays and Poems (Preorder)
*PREORDER*Publication date: August 4th, 2026An electric collection of essays and poems by America’s most prominent feminist Jewish poet and critic.What does a post-secular poetics look like? How might feminist midrash, irreverent play, and renewed engagement with spiritual lineages reshape the way we read? In this bold
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November 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Now available for preorder: Turn It & Turn It: Post-Secular Essays and Poems, an electric collection of essays and poems by America’s most prominent feminist Jewish poet and critic, Alicia Ostriker.
Forthcoming from Ayin 7/28/2026. Preorder: https://loom.ly/y_Y2uhE.
Forthcoming from Ayin 7/28/2026. Preorder: https://loom.ly/y_Y2uhE.
How do you research a community whose borders kept shifting? In our next Embers of the Ottoman Empire essay, Jacob Daniels confronts that question while tracing the Jews of Edirne—and the trap of projecting modern borders onto the past.
Read “Boxing and Unboxing an Empire”: https://loom.ly/W0H5k8g
Read “Boxing and Unboxing an Empire”: https://loom.ly/W0H5k8g
Embers of the Ottoman Empire
This folio offers eleven glimpses into the life, material culture, and thought of Jews living amid the dissolution and echoes of the Ottoman Empire.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
How do you research a community whose borders kept shifting? In our next Embers of the Ottoman Empire essay, Jacob Daniels confronts that question while tracing the Jews of Edirne—and the trap of projecting modern borders onto the past.
Read “Boxing and Unboxing an Empire”: https://loom.ly/W0H5k8g
Read “Boxing and Unboxing an Empire”: https://loom.ly/W0H5k8g
Happy pub day to The Torah in the Tarot, a beautiful Tarot deck and booklet revealing the lost and forgotten Jewish origins of the Tarot. 🃏🎭 Congratulations, Stav Appel!
Order here: https://loom: https://loom.ly/shClqOg
Order here: https://loom: https://loom.ly/shClqOg
The Torah in the Tarot Deck + Booklet (Preorder)
*PREORDER*Publication date: October 28th, 2025 A beautiful Tarot deck and booklet revealing the lost and forgotten Jewish origins of the Tarot—featuring a foreword by poet Ariana Reines.For hundreds of years, the original meaning of the Tarot de Marseille, the artistic ancestor of the contemporary Tarot, has been a sou
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October 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Happy pub day to The Torah in the Tarot, a beautiful Tarot deck and booklet revealing the lost and forgotten Jewish origins of the Tarot. 🃏🎭 Congratulations, Stav Appel!
Order here: https://loom: https://loom.ly/shClqOg
Order here: https://loom: https://loom.ly/shClqOg
Now available for preorder: The Illuminated Path of Teshuvah: Ancient Jewish Wisdom on Repairing Harm by Ari Lev Fornari—a bold roadmap for healing, accountability, and liberation rooted in Jewish wisdom and justice.
Preorder here → https://loom.ly/qP15DOc
Preorder here → https://loom.ly/qP15DOc
The Illuminated Path of Teshuvah: Ancient Jewish Wisdom on Repairing H
*PREORDER*Estimated publication date: Late 2026Exact publication date forthcomingAncient wisdom meets radical justice in this powerful reimagining of the Jewish path of teshuvah.The Illuminated Path of Teshuvah is a bold spiritual and ethical roadmap for personal and collective transformation. Rooted in ancient Jewish
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October 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Now available for preorder: The Illuminated Path of Teshuvah: Ancient Jewish Wisdom on Repairing Harm by Ari Lev Fornari—a bold roadmap for healing, accountability, and liberation rooted in Jewish wisdom and justice.
Preorder here → https://loom.ly/qP15DOc
Preorder here → https://loom.ly/qP15DOc
The great Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, best known for his creative contributions to Hasidism, died on this day in 1810. In his honor, we’re revisiting Jessica Tamar Deutsch’s The Lost Princess, a poetic retelling of Rebbe Nachman’s classic tale. https://loom.ly/IXNl6WQ
The Lost Princess
When a powerful King banishes his beloved daughter, the entire kingdom is turned upside down. Sensing the King’s deep regret, the Viceroy of the kingdom takes it upon himself to search for the Lost Princess, and reunite the royal family. The ensuing quest takes many mysterious twists and turns, revealing the infinite—a
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October 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The great Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, best known for his creative contributions to Hasidism, died on this day in 1810. In his honor, we’re revisiting Jessica Tamar Deutsch’s The Lost Princess, a poetic retelling of Rebbe Nachman’s classic tale. https://loom.ly/IXNl6WQ
New to our column Otiyot: in this excerpted section of A Flag of No Nation, “Allegiance,” Tom Haviv poetically describes his grandfather’s 1946 immigration from Istanbul to Palestine—and the many forces prompt such a pilgrimage.
Read here: https://loom.ly/GJQNHCU
Read here: https://loom.ly/GJQNHCU
Allegiance: Excerpts from A Flag of No Nation
An excerpt from A Flag of No Nation by Tom Haviv
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October 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
New to our column Otiyot: in this excerpted section of A Flag of No Nation, “Allegiance,” Tom Haviv poetically describes his grandfather’s 1946 immigration from Istanbul to Palestine—and the many forces prompt such a pilgrimage.
Read here: https://loom.ly/GJQNHCU
Read here: https://loom.ly/GJQNHCU
Join us at JCCSF on 10/22 for a literary salon event spotlighting Tom Haviv & Penina Eilberg-Schwartz in conversation about Haviv’s debut poetry collection, A Flag of No Nation.
Register here: https://loom.ly/lh6-I6s
Order the book here: https://loom.ly/rGpbuYs
Register here: https://loom.ly/lh6-I6s
Order the book here: https://loom.ly/rGpbuYs
TOM HAVIV & PENINA EILBERG-SCHWARTZ – A FLAG OF NO NATION
Poetry meets history in this sweeping exploration of Sephardic Jewish identity, memory, and the power of reimagining our collective future.
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October 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Join us at JCCSF on 10/22 for a literary salon event spotlighting Tom Haviv & Penina Eilberg-Schwartz in conversation about Haviv’s debut poetry collection, A Flag of No Nation.
Register here: https://loom.ly/lh6-I6s
Order the book here: https://loom.ly/rGpbuYs
Register here: https://loom.ly/lh6-I6s
Order the book here: https://loom.ly/rGpbuYs
Ayin author Stav Appel is taking The Torah in the Tarot on tour! Catch him this fall and winter on the East and West Coasts (and online).
See all of Stav’s upcoming events here: https://loom.ly/EUCuLBs
Order The Torah in the Tarot here: https://loom.ly/b2tuUv0
See all of Stav’s upcoming events here: https://loom.ly/EUCuLBs
Order The Torah in the Tarot here: https://loom.ly/b2tuUv0
EVENTS | TorahTarot
Upcoming speaking dates.
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October 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ayin author Stav Appel is taking The Torah in the Tarot on tour! Catch him this fall and winter on the East and West Coasts (and online).
See all of Stav’s upcoming events here: https://loom.ly/EUCuLBs
Order The Torah in the Tarot here: https://loom.ly/b2tuUv0
See all of Stav’s upcoming events here: https://loom.ly/EUCuLBs
Order The Torah in the Tarot here: https://loom.ly/b2tuUv0
Join us at JCCSF for 2 events with Ayin author/illustrator Jessica Tamar Deutsch on Rebbe Nachman’s The Lost Princess: An Illustrated Re-Telling.
🎨 Artist Talk 10/23 → https://loom.ly/QZLj-bQ
✂️ Art workshop 10/28 → https://loom.ly/o7gLp24
📖 Order book → https://loom.ly/O4KW3BY
🎨 Artist Talk 10/23 → https://loom.ly/QZLj-bQ
✂️ Art workshop 10/28 → https://loom.ly/o7gLp24
📖 Order book → https://loom.ly/O4KW3BY
Artist Talk: Seeking the Lost Princess
New in our gallery on the second floor, view an inspirational and captivating visual interpretation of Hebrew text from the Jewish prayer the Amidah. Be ready to open your mind and heart.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Join us at JCCSF for 2 events with Ayin author/illustrator Jessica Tamar Deutsch on Rebbe Nachman’s The Lost Princess: An Illustrated Re-Telling.
🎨 Artist Talk 10/23 → https://loom.ly/QZLj-bQ
✂️ Art workshop 10/28 → https://loom.ly/o7gLp24
📖 Order book → https://loom.ly/O4KW3BY
🎨 Artist Talk 10/23 → https://loom.ly/QZLj-bQ
✂️ Art workshop 10/28 → https://loom.ly/o7gLp24
📖 Order book → https://loom.ly/O4KW3BY
Have you preordered your copy of Stav Appel’s The Torah in the Tarot? We are one month away from publication day!
Preorder this beautiful Tarot deck and accompanying booklet 🎭🃏: https://loom.ly/qh_Rvl4
Preorder this beautiful Tarot deck and accompanying booklet 🎭🃏: https://loom.ly/qh_Rvl4
September 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Have you preordered your copy of Stav Appel’s The Torah in the Tarot? We are one month away from publication day!
Preorder this beautiful Tarot deck and accompanying booklet 🎭🃏: https://loom.ly/qh_Rvl4
Preorder this beautiful Tarot deck and accompanying booklet 🎭🃏: https://loom.ly/qh_Rvl4
Friends in or near NYC: Join us on Thursday, 10/9 at the Center for New Jewish Culture to celebrate the release of Daniela Naomi Molnar’s PROTOCOLS: An Erasure. Daniela will be in conversation with the poet Erika Meitner.
Register: https://loom.ly/eRwVU1E
Register: https://loom.ly/eRwVU1E
September 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Friends in or near NYC: Join us on Thursday, 10/9 at the Center for New Jewish Culture to celebrate the release of Daniela Naomi Molnar’s PROTOCOLS: An Erasure. Daniela will be in conversation with the poet Erika Meitner.
Register: https://loom.ly/eRwVU1E
Register: https://loom.ly/eRwVU1E
Forthcoming from Somewhere in the fall of 2026: The Whole Torah Coloring Book, an interactive set of coloring pages depicting all fifty-four Torah portions for adults and kids alike. The cover will be revealed in the coming months!
Preorder here: https://loom.ly/0f8boDQ
Preorder here: https://loom.ly/0f8boDQ
The Whole Torah Coloring Book (Preorder)
*PREORDER*Publication date: Fall 2026About the BookAn interactive set of coloring pages depicting all fifty-four Torah portions for adults and kids alike—with accompanying commentaries to invite reflection, engagement, and delight. This coloring book is designed for the creative student who wants to leave their mark o
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September 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Forthcoming from Somewhere in the fall of 2026: The Whole Torah Coloring Book, an interactive set of coloring pages depicting all fifty-four Torah portions for adults and kids alike. The cover will be revealed in the coming months!
Preorder here: https://loom.ly/0f8boDQ
Preorder here: https://loom.ly/0f8boDQ
Come find us all day on Sunday, 9/21 at booth 338 at Brooklyn Book Festival’s Literary Marketplace! The Ayin team will be tabling new Ayin books, and Ayin authors will stop by throughout the day.
Check out all the festival festivities here: https://loom.ly/26q7IFw
Check out all the festival festivities here: https://loom.ly/26q7IFw
Home - Brooklyn Book Festival
The Brooklyn Book Festival is New York City's largest free literary festival.
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September 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Come find us all day on Sunday, 9/21 at booth 338 at Brooklyn Book Festival’s Literary Marketplace! The Ayin team will be tabling new Ayin books, and Ayin authors will stop by throughout the day.
Check out all the festival festivities here: https://loom.ly/26q7IFw
Check out all the festival festivities here: https://loom.ly/26q7IFw
We 're excited to share that we are searching for three new hires to join our team: a Managing Editor, a Director of Communications & Marketing, and a Director of Operations.
To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and writing sample to jobs@ayinpress.org.
https://loom.ly/FtZWQd0
To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and writing sample to jobs@ayinpress.org.
https://loom.ly/FtZWQd0
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Work with Us Join our newsletter to learn of ongoing opportunities to engage with Ayin Press! To apply for any ...
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September 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We 're excited to share that we are searching for three new hires to join our team: a Managing Editor, a Director of Communications & Marketing, and a Director of Operations.
To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and writing sample to jobs@ayinpress.org.
https://loom.ly/FtZWQd0
To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and writing sample to jobs@ayinpress.org.
https://loom.ly/FtZWQd0
Forthcoming in 2026: Who Do You Think You Are?, the English translation of Yuli Novak’s bestselling Hebrew memoir. We're honored to publish this intimate, unflinching account of what it means to confront a system of violence from within.
Preorder here: https://loom.ly/n2wWYQM
Preorder here: https://loom.ly/n2wWYQM
Who Do You Think You Are? (Preorder)
*PREORDER*Estimated Publication: Late 2026 / Early 2027 About the Book:Who Do You Think You Are?, an English translation of the bestselling Hebrew memoir, is an intimate and unflinching account of what it means to confront a system of violence from within. In 2015, as director of Breaking the Silence—a controversial gr
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September 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Forthcoming in 2026: Who Do You Think You Are?, the English translation of Yuli Novak’s bestselling Hebrew memoir. We're honored to publish this intimate, unflinching account of what it means to confront a system of violence from within.
Preorder here: https://loom.ly/n2wWYQM
Preorder here: https://loom.ly/n2wWYQM
Happy pub day to SURVIVA! We're honored to publish this ambitious, world-envisioning work of Indigenous futurism—the first title to be released under Ayin’s new sibling imprint, Aora Books.
Congratulations, Cannupa Hanska Luger!
Order here: https://loom.ly/eirfMik
Congratulations, Cannupa Hanska Luger!
Order here: https://loom.ly/eirfMik
SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide (Preorder)
*PREORDER*Publication date: September 2nd, 2025An ambitious, world-envisioning work of Indigenous futurism.Since 2015—through a proliferation of forms including sculpture, regalia, film, photography, poetry, painting, and installation—acclaimed multimedia artist Cannupa Hanska Luger has been weaving together strands of
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September 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Happy pub day to SURVIVA! We're honored to publish this ambitious, world-envisioning work of Indigenous futurism—the first title to be released under Ayin’s new sibling imprint, Aora Books.
Congratulations, Cannupa Hanska Luger!
Order here: https://loom.ly/eirfMik
Congratulations, Cannupa Hanska Luger!
Order here: https://loom.ly/eirfMik
Ayin Press & Hamsa Flag Project are seeking partners to support Dr. Chana Morgenstern's Literature of Co-Resistance: An Historic Collection of Arabic Writing by Palestinians & Jews via sponsorship w/ tax-deductible donations.
If interested, please reach out: talia@ayinpress.org
If interested, please reach out: talia@ayinpress.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Ayin Press & Hamsa Flag Project are seeking partners to support Dr. Chana Morgenstern's Literature of Co-Resistance: An Historic Collection of Arabic Writing by Palestinians & Jews via sponsorship w/ tax-deductible donations.
If interested, please reach out: talia@ayinpress.org
If interested, please reach out: talia@ayinpress.org
We are delighted to reveal the cover of The Garlic Eaters, Madison Safer’s children’s book about a garlic-loving, Yiddish-speaking family, slated for publication in Spring 2026. 🧄🏠🐿️
Preorder the book here: https://loom.ly/JKeUsgE
Preorder the book here: https://loom.ly/JKeUsgE
August 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We are delighted to reveal the cover of The Garlic Eaters, Madison Safer’s children’s book about a garlic-loving, Yiddish-speaking family, slated for publication in Spring 2026. 🧄🏠🐿️
Preorder the book here: https://loom.ly/JKeUsgE
Preorder the book here: https://loom.ly/JKeUsgE