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Items with the tag:

latin america

Cover of Ways to Disappear
Fic­tion
Ways to Disappear
Idra Novey
Cover of What Are the Blind Men Dreaming?
Non­fic­tion
What Are the Blind Men Dreaming?
Noe­mi Jaffe
Cover of Forgiving Mariela Camacho
Fic­tion
For­giv­ing Mariela Camacho
A.J. Sidran­sky
Essay

Try­ing Not to Drown in a Glass of Water On My Way to Cuba

This week, Ruth Behar, the author of An Island Called Home: Return­ing to Jew­ish Cuba and Trav­el­ing Heavy: A Mem­oir In Between Jour­neys, blogs for The Post­script on…
Ruth Behar
February 17, 2015
Cover of The Jews of Latin America
Non­fic­tion
The Jews of Latin America
Judith Laikin Elkin
Cover of Ilan Stavans: Eight Conversations
Non­fic­tion
Ilan Sta­vans: Eight Conversations
Neal Sokol
Cover of Forgiving Maximo Rothman
Fic­tion
For­giv­ing Max­i­mo Rothman
A.J. Sidran­sky
Cover of Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States
Non­fic­tion
Kugel and Fri­joles: Lati­no Jews in the Unit­ed States
Lau­ra Limonic
Cover of Jubana! The Awkwardly True and Dazzling Adventures of a Jewish Cuban Goddess
Non­fic­tion
Jubana! The Awk­ward­ly True and Daz­zling Adven­tures of a Jew­ish Cuban Goddess
Gigi Anders
Cover of Pomegranate Seeds: Latin American Jewish Tales
Fic­tion
Pome­gran­ate Seeds: Latin Amer­i­can Jew­ish Tales
Nadia Grosser Nagarajan
Cover of The Centaur in the Garden
Fic­tion
The Cen­taur in the Garden
Moacyr Scliar; Margaret A. Neves, trans.
Cover of Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
Non­fic­tion
Jew­ish Pirates of the Caribbean
Edward Kritzler
Cover of Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua, 1940-1945
Non­fic­tion
Domini­can Haven: The Jew­ish Refugee Set­tle­ment in Sosua, 1940 – 1945
Marion A. Kaplan
Cover of Tropical Zion: General Trujillo FDR, and the Jews of Sosua
Non­fic­tion
Trop­i­cal Zion: Gen­er­al Tru­jil­lo FDR, and the Jews of Sosua
Allen Wells
Cover of Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans
Non­fic­tion
Rethink­ing Jew­ish-Latin Americans
Jeffrey Lesser and Raanan Rein, eds.
Cover of The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean: The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas
Non­fic­tion
The Jew­ish Nation of the Caribbean: The Span­ish-Por­tuguese Jew­ish set­tle­ments in the Caribbean and the Guianas
Mordechai Arbell
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