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Yiddish south of the border : an anthology of Latin American Yiddish writing / edited by Alan Astro ; with an introduction by Ilan Stavans.

Title
Yiddish south of the border : an anthology of Latin American Yiddish writing / edited by Alan Astro ; with an introduction by Ilan Stavans.
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Additional Authors
Astro, Alan.
Description
xv, 212 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Jewish Latin America
Uniform Title
Jewish Latin America.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-212).
Contents
Introduction / Ilan Stavans -- 1. Of Pimps, Prositutes and Other Seducers / Mordechai Alpersohn -- 2. The Gauchito Happy Moses / Mordechai Alpersohn -- 3. An Evil Eye / Borekh Bendersky -- 4. Unrestful Sabbaths / Borekh Bendersky -- 5. In Opposite Directions / Hirsh Bloshtein -- 6. Meager Results: Two Decades of Jewish Agricultural Settlement in Argentina / Leon Chasanovitch -- 7. Bread and Honor / Leon Chasanovitch -- 8. The Builders of a Jewish Future / Peretz Hirshbein -- 9. Homesick in Buenos Aites / Hersh David Nomberg -- 10. The Courtyard Without Windows / Mimi Pinzon -- 11. A Man and his Parrot / Jose Rabinovich -- 12. In Honor of Yom Kippur / Samuel Rollansky -- 13. A Ripped Tefillin Strap / Moyshe Rubin -- 14. When Life Swallowed Up Death / Aaron Leib Schussheim -- 15. Nightmare: Excerpt of a Memoir of "The Tragic Week" / Pinye Wald -- 16. Director's Prologue to Leib Malach's play Remolding / Jacob Botoshansky -- 17. Remolding / Leib Malach -- 18. The Mulata / Meir Kucinski -- 19. An Engagement Dinner / Rosa Palatnik -- 20. "He Worked His Way Up" / Jose Goldchain -- 21. She Wanted to Throw a Very Nice Affair / Jose Goldchain -- 22. Solomon Licht / Yoyne Obodovski -- 23. Gold / Noyekh Vital -- 24. Temptation / Salomon Brainsky -- 25. Jesus / Pinkhes Berniker -- 26. The Faith Healer / Abraham Josef Dubelman -- 27. The Gallego / Aaron Zeitlin -- 28. Churches / Isaac Berliner -- 29. Holiday in the Streets: The First Anti-Semitic Demonstration (June 2, 1931) / Jacobo Glantz -- 30. Quite a Bank / Meir Corona -- 31. The Tinifotsky Monologues / Abraham Weisbaum -- 32. San Antonio Twenty-Two Years Ago / Alexander Ziskind Gurvitz -- 33. The Bar Mitzvah Speech / Salomon Zytner -- 34. The Refugee / Salomon Zytner -- 35. A Banquet in Mexico City / Hanan Ayalti -- 36. The Memo from the Thirty-Six / Hanan Ayalti.
ISBN
0826323480
LCCN
2003010133
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries