CULTURAL LITERACY
MVP is one of only a handful of publishers dedicated to connecting the literature of the Americas.
INCLUSIVE DIVERSITY
MVP serves as a conduit of multicultural exchange and a crucial channel for majoritizing minority literature and peoples.
DEMOCRACY
MVP brings underrepresented literatures and a much needed diversity to a larger English speaking readership!
June 1/2022
Mandel Vilar Press and Fig Tree Books LLC
Form A Strategic Partnership
Effective immediately, FTB has become an imprint of MVP.
Robert Mandel said, “Fig Tree’s mission of publishing the best literature of the American Jewish experience dovetails extraordinarily well with Mandel Vilar Press’s mission of advancing diversity and conservation in the book economy and bringing underrepresented literature of the Americas to a wide audience.” READ MORE
Asylum: A Memoir of Family Secrets
By Judy Bolton-Fasman
How much do we really know about the lives of our parents and the secrets lodged in their past? Judy Bolton-Fasman’s fascinating saga recounts the search for answers to the mysteries embedded in the lives of her Cuban-born mother... Read more here.
The Hot Summer of 1968, A Novel
By Viliam Klimáček
Translated by Peter Petro
In the spring of 1968, the Czechoslovakian Communist Party introduced “socialism with a human face”—known as “Prague Spring.” Suddenly the citizens of Czechoslovakia enjoyed the freedom of the Press... Read more here.
Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner
by Robert Boyers
Maestros & Monsters explores Boyer’s friendships with two major twentieth century secular Jewish intellectuals who achieved celebrity status—Susan Sontag on a global scale, George Steiner principally in Europe and the US. Read more here.
The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir
This new and expanded Twentieth Anniversary Edition of the Holocaust memoir of George Salton (then Lucjan Salzman) gives readers a personal and powerful account of his survival through one of the darkest periods in human history. Read more here.
 Pillar of SaltAnna Salton Eisen |  Smyrna in FlamesHomero Aridjis |
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 AsylumJudy Bolton-Fasman |  The Hot Summer of 1968, A NovelViliam Klimáček |  Doctor On CallDr. Alla Shapiro |
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 Small Bibles for Bad Times:Atlan Liliane |  Can Robots Be Jewish?Amy Schwartz |  Growing Up Below Sea LevelBiale Rachel |
"MVP will be devoted to publishing the numerous great writers overlooked by corporate publishers and with no doubt will live up to Franz Kafka’s mandate that 'A book must be the axe of the frozen sea within us.'"
ROBERT A. MANDEL
Co-Founder
"MVP will help open up our cultural borders and will play a vital role in maintaining a healthy and vibrant democracy and cultural literacy. Less than 1% of US readers read in translation. In contrast, in some European countries such as France and Germany the figure is closer to 30%. There is much to ponder about the health of a nation when its peoples don’t read across cultures. This ignorance breeds bigotry and prejudice. It is clear that publishing translations is one urgent mandate for the making of an empathic, global citizen. This is why the launch of MVPress is so momentous."
IRENE VILAR
Co-Founder
