Ilan Stavans 
The Seventh Heaven [EPUB ebook] 
Travels through Jewish Latin America

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Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date back to Christopher Columbus’s arrival. In the tradition of V.S. Naipaul’s explorations of India, the Caribbean, and the Arab World, he came back with an extraordinarily vivid travelogue. Stavans talks to families of the <i>desaparecidos</i> in Buenos Aires, to “Indian Jews, ” and to people affiliated with neo-Nazi groups in Patagonia. He also visits Spain to understand the long-term effects of the Inquisition, the American Southwest habitat of “secret Jews, ” and Israel, where immigrants from Latin America have reshaped the Jewish state. Along the way, he looks for the proverbial “seventh heaven, ” which, according to the Talmud, out of proximity with the divine, the meaning of life in general, and Jewish life in particular, becomes clearer. <i>The Seventh Heaven</i> is a masterful work in Stavans’s ongoing quest to find a convergence between the personal and the historical.

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<b>Ilan Stavans </b>is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is the author and translator of numerous books, including <i>The Seventh Heaven: Jewish Travels Through Latin America </i>and <i>The Wall</i>.

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Taal Engels ● Formaat EPUB ● Pagina’s 406 ● ISBN 9780822987154 ● Bestandsgrootte 1.0 MB ● Uitgeverij University of Pittsburgh Press ● Stad PIttsburgh ● Land US ● Gepubliceerd 2019 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 7204768 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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