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Title Oy, caramba! : an anthology of Jewish stories from Latin America / Ilan Stavans [editor]
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 329 pages)
Contents Introduction / by Ilan Stavans -- Argentina. Camacho's wedding feast / Alberto Gerchunoff ; translated from the Spanish by Prudencio de Pereda -- In honor of Yom Kippur / Samuel Rollansky ; translated from the Yiddish by Alan Astro -- A man and his parrot / José Rabinovich ; translated from the Yiddish by Debbie Nathan -- Innocent spirit / Alicia Steinberg ; translated from the Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger -- Celeste's heart / Aída Bortnik ; translated from the Spanish by Alberto Manguel -- Remembrances of things future / Mario Szichman ; translated from the Spanish by Iván Zatz -- A nice boy from a good family / Ana María Shúa ; translated from the Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger -- The closed coffin / Marcelo Birmajer ; translated from the Spanish by Sharon Wood -- Colombia. Temptation / Salomón Bbriansky ; translated from the Yiddish by Moisés Mermelstein -- Chile. Solomon Licht / Yoyne Obodovski ; translated from the Yiddish by Moisés Mermelstein -- Asylum / Ariel Dorfman -- Peru. The conversion / Isaac Goldemberg ; translated from the Spanish by Hardie St. Martin -- Mexico. Genealogies / Margo Glantz ; translated from the Spanish by Susan Basnett -- From like a bride / Rosa Nissán ; translated from the Spanish by Dick Gerdes -- In the name of the name / Angelina Muníz-Huberman ; translated from the Spanish by Lois Parkinson Zamora -- The invisible hour / Esther Seligson ; translated from the Spanish by Ilan Stavans -- Xerox man / Ilan Stavans -- Uruguay. The bar mitzvah speech / Salomon Zytner ; translated from the Yiddish by Debbie Nathan -- Venezuela. Papa's friends / Elisa Lerner ; translated from the Spanish by Amy Prince -- From claper / Alicia Freilich ; translated from the Spanish by Joan E. Friedman -- Cuba. Jesus / Pinkhes Berniker ; translated from the Yiddish by Alan Aastro -- Guatemala. Bottles / Alcina Lubitch Domecq ; translated from the Spanish by Ilan Stavans -- Kindergarten / Victor Perera -- Brazil. Love / Clarice Lispector ; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Ponteiro -- Inside my dirty head : the Holocaust / Moacyr Scliar ; translated from the Portuguese by Eloah P. Giacomelli -- Appendix. The mythical Jew of Jorge Luis Borges. Emma Zunz ; Death and the compass / Jorge Luis Borges ; translated from the Spanish by Donald A. Yates -- The secret miracle / Jorge Luis Borges ; translated from the Spanish by Harriet De Onís
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-329)
Notes Print version record
Subject Short stories, Latin American -- Translations into English
Latin American fiction -- Jewish authors -- Translations into English
Latin American fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English
Jews -- Fiction
FICTION -- General.
Short stories, Latin American
Jews
Latin American fiction
Genre/Form short stories.
Short stories
Fiction
Translations
Short stories.
Nouvelles.
Form Electronic book
Author Stavans, Ilan, editor.
ISBN 9780826354969
0826354963
Other Titles Anthology of Jewish stories from Latin America
Jewish stories from Latin America