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Series

• Texts and contexts (Unnumbered) [More in this series]
• Texts and contexts

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Waiting for Rabbi Harvey. A visit to centro historico
• Essays
• Singer's typewriter and mine
• Vilde khaye!
• Doctor Esperanto
• Letter from Caracas
• Harry Houdini
• Singer: a purim parody
• Introduction to Moacyr Scliar's The centaur in the garden
• O r*o*s*t*e*n! my r*o*s*t*e*n!
• Juan Gelman's Dibaxu
• I found it at the movies
• Translating Tevye
• Nora's will
• Thinking aloud: the education of Maurice Samuel
• Mario Vargas Ilosa: judeophile
• American Jews: response to moment
• The hate of Norberto Ceresole
• Photographing Singer
• Is there a God?
• Jacobo Timerman: prisoner without a name
• Borges and Israel: three poems
• Yiddish south of the border
• Homero Aridjis: lessons of 1492
• Rereading Lionel Trilling: in the American grain
• Mauricio Rosencof: the letters that never came
• A personal history of Jewish reading
• Esther Kreitman: the other singer
• Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer
• Philip Roth: the plagiarist
• Bruno Schulz on stage
• Sephardic literature: unity and dispersion
• The Jewish identity project. What melting pot? multiculturalism and American Jews: oy, are we a pluribus?
• Conversations. The Buenos Aires affair, with Nathan Englander
• Humor and terror, with Marcelo Birmajer
• Impostors r us, with Robin Dizard
• Nostalgia and recognition, with Morris Dickstein
• A fine range of motion, with Allegra Goodman
• God's translators. Reflections on the King James Bible, with Veronica Albin
• Storytelling as Midrash. People of the picture book.

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ISBN

• 9780803271364 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0803271360 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012018124

OCLC

785862651

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