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latin america

Essay

The Mik­vah

Daniela Weil
November 16, 2020
Excerpt—From the Journal

Excerpt: The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

Michael Zap­a­ta
September 24, 2020
Essay

Exile in the Andes

Jen­nifer Steil
June 22, 2020
Non­fic­tion
The Return of Car­va­jal: A Mystery
Ilan Sta­vans
Non­fic­tion
The Sev­enth Heav­en: Trav­els Through Jew­ish Latin America
Ilan Sta­vans
Non­fic­tion
Forg­ing Ties, Forg­ing Pass­ports: Migra­tion and the Mod­ern Sephar­di Diaspora
Devi Mays
Non­fic­tion
Wal­ter’s Wel­come: The Inti­mate Sto­ry of a Ger­man-Jew­ish Fam­i­ly’s Flight from the Nazis to Peru
Eva Neiss­er Echenberg
Non­fic­tion
Dreams of Re-Cre­ation in Jamaica: The Holo­caust, Intern­ment, Jew­ish Refugees in Gibral­tar Camp, Jamaican Jews and Sephardim
Diana Cooper-Clark
Chil­dren’s
Lucky Bro­ken Girl
Ruth Behar
Visu­al Arts
Jew­ish Trea­sures of the Caribbean
Wyatt Gallery; Jonathan Sarna (Foreword)
Fic­tion
Once@9:53am: Ter­ror in Buenos Aires
Ilan Sta­vans
Non­fic­tion
Borges, the Jew
Ilan Sta­vans
Essay

Turn­ing the Ter­ror­ist Attack in Buenos Aires into Pop­u­lar Art

Author Ilan Sta­vans has three new books out this year, and will be intro­duc­ing each one to Jew­ish Book Coun­cil read­ers as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series here on The…
Ilan Sta­vans
November 3, 2016
Essay

Borges’s Phi­lo-Semi­tism

Author Ilan Sta­vans has three new books out this year, and will be intro­duc­ing each one to Jew­ish Book Coun­cil read­ers as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series here on The…
Ilan Sta­vans
November 1, 2016
Fic­tion
Oy, Caram­ba!: An Anthol­o­gy of Jew­ish Sto­ries from Latin America
Ilan Sta­vans
Essay

What Is Jew­ish in Mod­ern Latin Amer­i­can Literature?

Author Ilan Sta­vans has three new books out this year, and will be intro­duc­ing each one to Jew­ish Book Coun­cil read­ers as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series here on The…
Ilan Sta­vans
October 31, 2016

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