The 52 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in January 2022
Here is the list of the 52 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in January 2022. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on...
Tagged: Ilan Stavans
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish by Ilan Stavans, Josh Lambert
Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language...
The Return of Carvajal: A Mystery by Ilan Stavans
In 2017,the New York Times announced that the long-lost memoir of Luis de Carvajal the Younger had been rediscovered. Considered the first autobiography by a Jew in the Americas, the book had been stolen decades earlier...
The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America by Ilan Stavans
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...
Daniel and Ismail by Juan Pablo Iglesias
Illustrator: Alex Peris Translators: Ilan Stavans, Eliezer Nowodworski, Frieda Press-Danieli, Randa Sayegh Daniel and Ismail, one Jewish and the other Palestinian, don’t know each other yet, but they have more in common than they...
Stavans Unbound: The Critic Between Two Canons by Bridget Kevane
Twenty-five years ago, Ilan Stavans published his first book, Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage (1993). Since then, Stavans has become a polarizing figure, dismissed and praised in equal measure, a commanding if contested intellectual...
