Alberto Gerchunoff
Alliance Israelite Universelle
anti-Semitic
antisemitism in Hispanic culture
Buenos
Buenos Aires
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cross-cultural literary criticism
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Follow
Gonzalo De Berceo
Held
Homero Aridjis
Iberian Jewish history
Ilan Stavans
International Monetary Fund
Jacobo Timerman
Jewish Gauchos
Kidnapped
Ladino literature analysis
Latin American Jewish writers
Marjorie Agosin
medieval Spanish Jewish texts
Miguel De Unamuno
Samuel Eichelbaum
Samuel Hanagid
Sephardic diaspora studies
Sky
Spanish Language
Unamuno
Wandering
Wo
Yehuda Halevi
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415929318
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 178 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Dec 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This groundbreaking, eclectic book of readings, edited by Ilan Stavans, whom The Washington Post described as "one of our foremost cultural critics," offers a sideboard of the ups and downs of that partnership. It includes some seventy canonical authors, Jews and non-Jews alike, through whose diverse oeuvre-poetry, fiction, theater, personal and philosophical essays, correspondence, historical documents, and even kitchen recipes-the reader is able to navigate the shifting waters of history, from Spain in the tenth century to the Spanish-speaking Americas and the United States today. The Reader showcases the writings of such notable authors as Solomon ibn Gabirol, Maimonides, Miguel de Cervantes, Henry W. Longfellow, Miguel de Unamuno, Federico García Lorca, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacobo Timerman, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ruth Behar, and Ariel Dorfman to name only a few.
Ilan Stavans is the author of numerous books including OnBorrowed Words, and The Hispanic Condition, as well as editor of The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories, and TheEssential Ilan Stavans. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Latino Literature Prize, among other honors. Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, MA.
