Shalach Manot

Shalach Manot is the pen name of the author of “His Hundred Years, A Tale,” a novel published in 2016 by Albion-Andalus Books. Shalach Manot’s fiction explores the world of Turkish Jews. The novel is about an everyman, a peddler, in the fast-deteriorating Ottoman Empire and in New York.

Manot’s 2005 short story, “Pasha: Ruminations of David Aroughetti,” has the distinction of being a contemporary story written in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) and translated into English; it has appeared in both languages. The author’s many readings of the story, at events in New York, Seattle, California, and Massachusetts, have been in English to audiences of all backgrounds, but often with excerpts in Ladino, especially to Spanish-speaking audiences.

In Hebrew, Shalach Manot refers to gifts of food given by Jews to friends and family on the holiday of Purim.