Tuesday Feb 24, 2026
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About the Book.
With the breakup of her marriage, a once famous actress of the Yiddish theater travels to Tel-Aviv to revisit the apartment she once shared with her husband, Max. Soon after, she finds herself at the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Apparition Hospice in Jaffa, a sanitorium, run by a group of nuns. Unclear as to how she got there, she begins to piece together the events that led her to this moment. From New York to Tel -Aviv, and the Siberian gulag, The World Between explores the landscape of a marriage, friendship, loss, and the way childhood war trauma bleeds into every aspect of the characters’ lives.
About the Author.
Zeeva Bukai is the author of the novels, THE WORLD BETWEEN (Delphinium; February 24, 2026) and THE ANATOMY OF EXILE (Delphinium; January, 2025). Her
stories have appeared in Carve Magazine, The Master’s Review, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere. Her honors include fellowship at the New York Center for Fiction, residencies at Hedgebrook Writers Colony, and Byrdcliff AIR program in Woodstock NY. She is the recipient of The Master’s Review fall fiction prize, the Curt Johnson Prose Award, and the Lilith Fiction Award. Her work has been anthologized in Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible, Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine, and Out of Many: Multiplicity and Divisions in America Today. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and is the Assistant Director of Academic Support at SUNY Empire State University. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. You can visit her online at wwwzeevabukai.com.
About the Author.
SARA LIPPMANN is the author of the novel Lech and the story collections Doll Palace and Jerks. Her fiction has won the Lilith Fiction Award and has been honored by
the New York Foundation for the Arts, and her essays have appeared in The Millions, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. With Seth Rogoff, she co-edited the anthology, Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible, from SUNY Press. She is a co-founder of Writing Co-lab, an artist-run online teaching cooperative, and the editor-in-chief of Epiphany magazine. Her new novel, Hidden River, will be published in May 2026. You can visit Sara online at saralippmann.com.