Bibliograph

The seventh heaven, travels through Jewish Latin America, Ilan Stavans

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The seventh heaven, travels through Jewish Latin America, Ilan Stavans

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-298)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The seventh heaven

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1086345048

Responsibility statement

Ilan Stavans

Series statement

Pitt Latin American series

Sub title

travels through Jewish Latin America

Summary

"Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling 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 exploration of India, the Caribbean, and the Arab world, he came back with an extraordinarily vivid travelogue. Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos in Buenos Aries, 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. The Seventh Heaven is a masterful work in Stavans's ongoing quest to find a convergence between the personal and the historical.", --From dust jacket inside

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