Keeping the Mystery Alive
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This book delves into creative renditions of key aspects of Jewish Mysticism in Latin American literature, film, and art from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. It introduces the work of Latin American authors and artists who have been inspired by Jewish Mysticism from the 1960s to the present focusing on representations of dybbuks (transmigratory souls), the presence of Eros as part of the experience of mystical prayer, reformulations of Zoharic fables, and the search for Tikkun Olam (cosmic repair), among other key topics of Jewish Mysticism. The purpose of this book is to open up these aspects of their work to a broad audience who may or may not be familiar with Jewish Mysticism.
Ariana Huberman is Associate Professor of Spanish at Haverford College. She is also author of Gauchos and Foreigners: Glossing Culture and Identity in the Argentine Countryside (2011), co-editor of Memoria y Representación. Configuraciones culturales y literarias en el imaginario judío latinoamericano (2006) with Alejandro Meter, and of Evolving Images: Jewish Latin American Cinema (2018) with Nora Glickman. She was born in Argentina and now lives with her family in the Philadelphia suburbs.