The first literary work to reflect the Brazilian Jewish community has finally been published in English. It is now available .

Learn about it below in this post, checkout the preface and first chapter here and book the translator, Merrie Blocker, to speak to your group.

On a Clear April Morning, by Marcos Iolovitch, is a lyrical and riveting coming- of-age story, set among early 20^th Century Jewish settlers brought to an unknown farming experiment in an isolated corner of Brazil.

This autobiographical novel is filled with drama, joy, disaster, romance, and humor. Iolovitch travels from a farm, where the crops wouldn’t grow, to towns where this Yiddish-speaking youngster falls in love, studies philosophy with the Jesuits, and becomes an important member of Brazil’s literary world.

This first English edition includes elucidating historical notes by the translator, Merrie Blocker, a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer, on the origin of Jewish farming communities in the U.S., Canada, and South America and the contributions of Jews and other immigrants to the development of an avant-garde intellectual center far off the beaten path.