Jerome Mandel won first-place in the P.E.N.-UNESCO International Short Story Competition in 1997 with “Third Time, Ice Cream”.
His two collections of stories are Nothing Gold Can Stay: 18 Stories of Israeli Experience (1999) and Covet the Oven: 20 Short Stories of the Head, the Heart, and Writing (2013). Next Chapter published his novel Death Benefits in 2021.
Nothing Gold Can Stay: 18 Stories of Israeli Experience Covet the Oven: 20 Short Stories of the Head, the Heart, and Writing . Death Benefits In his academic life, Jerome Mandel, now Professor Emeritus, was sometime Chair of the English Department at Tel Aviv University. He has published four books on medieval English literature, thirty scholarly articles, and has given over fifty public lectures and fiction readings on four cont
