The scroll and the cross : 1,000 years of Jewish-Hispanic literature / edited by Ilan Stavans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stavans, Ilan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American literature--Jewish authors.

Spanish American literature.

Spanish American literature--History and criticism.

Jewish authors.

Physical Description:

x, 329 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This groundbreaking, eclectic book of readings, edited by award-winning Ilan Stavans, offers a sideboard of the ups and downs of that partnership. It includes some forty canonical authors, Jews and non-Jews alike, through whose diverse writing -- poetry, fiction, personal and philosophical essays, correspondence, and historical documents -- the reader is able to navigate the shifting waters of history, from Spain in the tenth century to the Spanish-speaking Americas and the United States today. This volume is sure to become a treasured resource for those interested in a marriage of civilizations whose future will affect us all.

Contents:

(Spain, 993-1056) "Short Prayer in Time of Battle" [poem] / Samuel Hanagid 41

(Spain, 1021/22-c. 1055) Fragments of "Night Storm" [poem] / Solomon ben Gabirol 43

(Spain, c. 1055-c. 1135) "The Two Sons" [poem] / Moises ben Ezra 45

(Spain, before 1075-after 1141) "My Heart Is in the East" [poem] / Yehuda Halevi 46

(Spain, twelfth century) "Jerusalem" [travelogue] / Benjamin of Tudela 47

(Spain, 1120-1190) "On Books and on Writing" [testament] / Yehuda ben Tibbon 51

(Spain, 1135-1204) Fragment of "Epistle to the Jews of Morocco" [letter] / Maimonides 54

Fragment of the Guide of the Perplexed [philosophical treatise] / Maimonides 70

(Spain, c. 1190-after 1265) "The Jews of Toledo" [poem] / Gonzalo de Berceo 72

(Spain, 1195-1270) Fragment of Disputation of Barcelona [debate] / Nahmanides 76

(Spain, 1221-1284) "Concerning the Jews: Las siete partidas" [legal document] / Alfonso X the Wise 84

(Spain, d. 1305) Fragment of The Zohar [mystical treatise] / Moises de Leon 91

(Spain, 1492) Edict of 1492 [document] / Kings Ferdinand and Isabella 94

(Spain, 1528-1591) "Serene Night" [poem] / Fray Luis de Leon 99

(Mexico, 1567-1596) "Autobiographical Essay" [memoir] / Luis de Carvajal the Younger 103

(Spain, 1580-1645) "To a Nose" [poem] / Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas 134

(Spain, 1635-1701) "One Well-Founded Faith" [poem] / Miguel Levi de Barrios 136

(Spain, 1864-1936) "Cancion del sefardita" [poem] / Miguel de Unamuno 138

(Nicaragua, 1867-1916) "Israel" [poem] / Ruben Dario 140

(Argentina, 1884-1950) "A Jewish Gaucho" [memoir] / Alberto Gerchunoff 142

(Spain, 1885-1972) "The Spanish Jews" [essay] / Americo Castro 151

(Argentina, 1894-1967) "The Good Harvest" [story] / Samuel Eichelbaum 155

(Spain, 1898-1936) "Jewish Cemetery" [poem] / Federico Garcia Lorca 159

(Argentina, 1899-1986) "The Secret Miracle" [story] / Jorge Luis Borges 162

(Belarus-Cuba-U.S., 1908-1956) "Jesus" [story] / Pinkhes Berniker 169

(Argentina, 1914-1984) "Press Clippings" [story] / Julio Cortazar 179

(Argentina, 1923-1999) Fragment of Prisoner without a Name [memoir] / Jacobo Timerman 190

(Romania-Ecuador, 1924-1998) Fragment of Man of Ashes [memoir] / Salomon Isacovici 198

(U.S.-Argentina, 1928-1993) "Thoughts on Latin America" [sermon] / Marshall T. Meyer 208

(Peru, 1936-) Fragment of The Storyteller [fiction] / Mario Vargas Llosa 219

(Mexico, 1936-) Fragment of The Merchant of Tudela [fiction] / Angelina Muniz-Huberman 239

(Mexico, 1939-) Fragment of Like a Bride [novel] / Rosa Nissan 245

(Venezuela, 1939-) "Recollections of a Criolla Zionist" [memoir] / Alicia Freilich 250

(Mexico, 1940-) "Sepharad, 1492" [poem] / Homero Aridjis 257

(Chile-U.S., 1942-) Fragment of Heading South, Looking North [memoir] / Ariel Dorfman 265

(Peru-U.S., 1945-) "The Jew's Imprecise Sonnet" [poem] / Isaac Goldemberg 280

(Mexico-U.S., 1945-) "At the U.S. Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C." [poem] / Tino Villanueva 281

(Guatemala-Israel, 1953-) "Resume Raisonne" [memoir] / Alcina Lubitch Domecq 286

(Chile-U.S., 1955-) Fragment of "Dear Anne Frank" [poem] / Marjorie Agosin 296

(Cuba-U.S., 1956-) "The Hebrew Cemetery of Guabanacoa" [poem] / Ruth Behar 298

(Mexico-U.S., 1961-) Fragment of On Borrowed Words [memoir] / Ilan Stavans 301.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

041592930X

0415929318

OCLC:

51271917