FICTION / JEWISH STUDIES / LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES TROPICAL SYNAGOGUES Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans uses the image of the "tropical synagogue" to evoke the collective voice and imagination that come to life on the pages of this book. A detailed bibliography of works by Jewish writers in Latin America is provided for those who want to read further.
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction ARGENTINA Camacho's Wedding Feast — Alberto Gerchunoff Uncle Facundo — Isidoro Blaisten Cecilia's Last Will and Testament — Alicia Steimberg Blues in the Night — Germàn Rozenmacher The Passion According to San Martín — Gerardo Mario Goloboff The Last Emigrant — Nora Glickman Celeste's Heart — Aída Bortnik Rememberances of Things Future — Mario Szichman BRAZIL Inside My Dirty Head — The Holocaust — Moacyr Scliar Love — Clarice Lispector His Moment of Glory — Samuel Rawet PERU The Conversion — Isaac Goldemberg VENEZUELA Papa's Friends — Elisa Lerner GUATEMALA Kindergarten — Victor Perera Bottles — Alcina Lubitch Domecq Canillas de Leche — David Unger MEXICO Genealogies — Margo Glantz The Invisible Hour — Esther Seligson In the Name of His Name — Angelina Muñiz-Huberman The Death of Yankos — Ilan Stavans Appendix: The Mythical Jew Emma Zunz, Death and the Compass, The Secret Miracle — Jorge Luis Borges "An anthology of this sort was long overdue. It will delight and intrigue fans of Latin American and Jewish Literature everywhere." —Ariel Dorfman "Themes steeped in allegory and metaphysics abound in this uncommon anthology." —Booklist "Tropical Synagogues reminds us that society south of the border is just as multicultural as in the U.S., and that Jews have played an important role in it since the time of the Spanish conquest." —Publishers Weekly "To paraphrase Américo Castro, one can study Jewish literature without taking Latin America into account, but one cannot study Latin American literature without including Jewish writers. This book validates that premise." —Choice Ilan Stavans is a Mexican novelist and critic. Among the many books he has authored and edited are Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories, The Hispanic Condition, Reflections on Culture and Identity in America. He teaches Romance Languages at Amherst College.
1997 Portico Paperbacks • 275 pp • bibliography ISBN 0-8419-1340-4 • $34.95 (cloth) ISBN 0-8419-1341-2 • $17.50 (paper)

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