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    Items with the tag:

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