Yardenne Greenspan

Yardenne Greenspan is a writer and Hebrew translator born in Tel Aviv. She was a regular contributor to Ploughshares from 2016 to 2023. Her writing has been featured in Literary Hub, Haaretz, Words Without Borders, Asymptote, Two Lines, and Apogee, among other publications. Her translations have been published by Restless Books, St. Martin’s Press, Akashic, Syracuse University, New Vessel Press, Amazon Crossing, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Her translation of The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid was a 2020 New York Times Notable Book and her translations of Where I Am by Dana Shem-Ur and the anthology West Jerusalem Noir were 2023 World Literature Today Notable Translations. She has an MFA from Columbia University and lives in New York City.

BOOKS

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The Third Temple

$26.00

By Yishai Sarid

Translated from the Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan

Winner of the prestigious Bernstein Prize in 2016

Who will rule the Holy Land, and at what cost?

Hardcover ISBN: 9781632063892
Publication date: November 26, 2024

Victorious

$24.00

By Yishai Sarid

Translated from the Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan

Finalist for the 2023 National Jewish Book Award for Hebrew Fiction in Translation

From the author of The Memory Monster, a New York Times Notable Book of 2020, comes a gripping examination of the complexities of military service as experienced by Abigail, a psychologist who becomes implicated in the dilemmas soldiers encounter both on and off the battlefield.

Hardcover ISBN: 9781632063120
Publication date: Sep 20, 2022

The Memory Monster

from $16.00

By Yishai Sarid

Translated from the Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020

2020 National Jewish Book Awards Finalist

“A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the present” (The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice), Yishai Sarid’s The Memory Monster is a harrowing parable of a young historian who becomes consumed by the memory of the Holocaust.

Hardcover ISBN: 9781632062710
Publication date: Sep 8, 2020

Paperback ISBN: 9781632060600
Publication date: Sep 7, 2021