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Yiddish South of the Border - An Anthology of Latin American Yiddish Writing (Paperback)
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Yiddish South of the Border - An Anthology of Latin American Yiddish Writing (Paperback)
Series: Jewish Latin America series
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Loot Price R535
Discovery Miles 5 350
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Alan Astro has compiled the first anthology of Latin American
Yiddish writings translated into English. Included are works of
fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
Mexico, Uruguay, and Cuba, with one brief memoir by a Russian rabbi
who arrived in San Antonio, Texas, in 1910. Literature has always
served as a refuge for Yiddish speakers, and the Yiddish literature
of Latin America reflects the writers' assertions of their
political rights. Stories depicting working-class life in Buenos
Aires are reminiscent of the work of New York writers like Abraham
Cahan (founder of Jewish Daily Forward) or Henry Roth (author of
Call It Sleep). In Latin America, Ashkenazic immigrants--Jews from
France, Germany, and Eastern Europe--explore their possible links
to the Crypto Jews who came to the New World to escape the
Inquisition. Yiddish South of the Border features these themes of
identity that permeate this literature and so much more.
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