Oy, Caramba!: An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America

“Writers from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, and other countries represent an ethnically diverse culture with roots in eastern Europe as well as Spain. . . . The anthology includes tales by such masters as Alberto Gerchunoff, . . . a large number of innovative women writers, and some authors more familiar to English-speaking readers.”—Library Journal

“Reminds us that society south of the border is just as multicultural as in the US, and that Jews have played an important role in it since the time of the Spanish conquest.”—Publishers Weekly

Jewish identity and magical realism are the themes of the tales of adventure and cultural alienation collected here by the leading authority on Jewish Latin American literature. First published in 1994 as Tropical Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers, Ilan Stavans’s classic anthology is expanded and updated in this new edition.

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Oy, Caramba!: An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America

“Writers from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, and other countries represent an ethnically diverse culture with roots in eastern Europe as well as Spain. . . . The anthology includes tales by such masters as Alberto Gerchunoff, . . . a large number of innovative women writers, and some authors more familiar to English-speaking readers.”—Library Journal

“Reminds us that society south of the border is just as multicultural as in the US, and that Jews have played an important role in it since the time of the Spanish conquest.”—Publishers Weekly

Jewish identity and magical realism are the themes of the tales of adventure and cultural alienation collected here by the leading authority on Jewish Latin American literature. First published in 1994 as Tropical Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers, Ilan Stavans’s classic anthology is expanded and updated in this new edition.

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Oy, Caramba!: An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America

Oy, Caramba!: An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America

Oy, Caramba!: An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America

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“Writers from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, and other countries represent an ethnically diverse culture with roots in eastern Europe as well as Spain. . . . The anthology includes tales by such masters as Alberto Gerchunoff, . . . a large number of innovative women writers, and some authors more familiar to English-speaking readers.”—Library Journal

“Reminds us that society south of the border is just as multicultural as in the US, and that Jews have played an important role in it since the time of the Spanish conquest.”—Publishers Weekly

Jewish identity and magical realism are the themes of the tales of adventure and cultural alienation collected here by the leading authority on Jewish Latin American literature. First published in 1994 as Tropical Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers, Ilan Stavans’s classic anthology is expanded and updated in this new edition.


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ISBN-13: 9780826354969
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 09/01/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
File size: 958 KB

About the Author

About The Author
Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books Art and Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination and The Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture, Revised and Expanded Edition are also available from UNM Press.

Table of Contents

Introduction Ilan Stavans 1

Argentina

Camacho's Wedding Feast Alberto Gerchunoff Prudencio de Pereda 45

In Honor of Yom Kippur Samuel Rollansky Alan Astro 54

A Man and His Parrot José Rabinovich Debbie Nathan 57

Innocent Spirit Alicia Steinberg Andrea G. Labinger 61

Celeste's Heart Aída Bortnik Alberto Manguel 67

Remembrances of Things Future Mario Szichman Iván Zatz 70

A Nice Boy from a Good Family Ana María Shua Andrea G. Labinger 83

The Closed Coffin Marcelo Birmajer Sharon Wood 92

Colombia

Temptation Salomón Briansky Moisés Mermelstein 107

Chile

Solomon Licht Yovne Obodovski Moisés Mermelstein 119

Asylum Ariel Dorfman 122

Peru

The Conversion Isaac Goldemberg Hardie St. Martin 143

Mexico

Genealogies (Excerpt) Margo Glantz Susan Bassnett 153

In the Name of his Name Angelina Muniz-Huberman Lois Parkinson Zamora 162

Like a Bride (Excerpt) Rosa Nissán Dick Gerdes 166

The Invisible Hour Esther Seligson Iván Zatz 189

Xerox Man Ilan Stavans 196

Uruguay

The Bar Mitzvah Speech Salomon Zytner Debbie Nathan 205

Venezuela

Papa's Friends Elisa Lerner Amy Prince 215

Cláper (Excerpt) Alicia Freilich Joan E. Friedman 225

Cuba

Jesus Pinkhes Berniker Alan Astro 245

Guatemala

Kindergarten Victor Perera 259

Bottles Alcina Lubitch Domecq Ilan Stavans 266

Brazil

Love Clarice Lispector Giovanni Pontiero 271

Inside My Dirty Head-The Holocaust Moacyr Scliar Eloah F. Giacomelli 280

Appendix The Mythical Jew Of Jorge Luis Borges

Emma Zunz Jorge Luis Borges Donald A. Yates 287

Death and the Compass Jorge Luis Borges Donald A. Yates 293

The Secret Miracle Jorge Luis Borges Harriet De Onís 304

Acknowledgments 311

Select Bibliography 317

Contributors 331

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