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9780896802261

Taking Root

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  • ISBN13:

    9780896802261

  • ISBN10:

    0896802264

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-09-01
  • Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr

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Author Biography

Marjorie Agosin is a poet and a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. A member of the Spanish Academy of Letters and winner of the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor, she was also selected by Hadassah for the Henrietta Zold Award.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Marjorie Agosin
Latin American Jewishness
A Game with Shifting Identities
1(11)
Edna Aizenberg
A Sephardi Air
12(33)
Ruth Behar
What! No Yiddish?
Growing up Sephardi in Peru
16(13)
Fortuna Calvo-Roth
My Past Is Present
The Complex Identity of a German Jewish-Venezuelan-American
29(16)
Veronica de Darer
El Azar-Fate Put the Novel Claper in My Hands
45(13)
Joan E. Friedman
Memories of Comings and Goings
58(38)
Ethel Kosminsky
My Cuban Story
96(14)
Ester Levis Levine
Crossing Creative and Cultural Barriers
110(18)
Natania Remba Nurko
Growing up Jewish in Columbia
128(34)
Cecilia Rosenblum
Found in Translation
On Becoming a Cuban Jewish Writer
134(14)
Ester R. Shapiro
Mosaics
The Story of Her Life
148(14)
Wilma Bloch Reich
Jessica P. Alpert
Shared Memories
162(21)
Nedda G. de Anhalt
Judaism
An Essential Tool
172(11)
Graciela Chichotky
A Passion to Remember
183(56)
Sonia Guralnik
Poetry in the Clouds
A Costa Rican Journey
195(10)
Rosita Kalina de Piszk
From Toledo to the New World
A Story of Secrets
205(13)
Angelina Muniz de Huberman
Uruguay
A Story in Episodes
218(11)
Teresa Porzecanski
Of Spices and Spells
From Morrocco to Buenos Aires
229(10)
Mercedes Roffe
Saint Anthony's Intervention and Other Accounts of Growing up Jewish in Mexico
239(12)
Diana Anhalt
With All That I Am
251(13)
Ana Maria Shua
A Tale of Courage and Fortitude
264(8)
Ivonne Strauss de Milz
Marjorie Agosin
Too Many Names
272(19)
Nora Strejilevich
Contributor Biographies 291

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