Singer's typewriter and mine : reflections on Jewish culture / Ilan Stavans.

Author
Stavans, Ilan [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.
Description
353 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Details

Series
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.
ISBN
  • 9780803271364 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0803271360 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2012018124
OCLC
785862651
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