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Return to Centro historico : a Mexican Jew looks for his roots / Ilan Stavans.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stavans, Ilan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Mexico--Mexico City--Biography.
- Jews.
- Mexico City (Mexico)--Biography.
- Mexico City (Mexico).
- Stavans, Ilan.
- Physical Description:
- 154 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Inspired by a stirring e-mail exchange with his father, award-winning essayist and cultural commentator , Ilan Stavans decided to do something bizarre: revisit his hometown, Mexico City, accompanied by a tour guide. With the same linguistic verve and insight that has made him one of the most distinguished voices in American literature today, Ilan Stavans invites readers along for a personal journey that is not only his own, but that of an entire culture. Return to Centro Hist#65533;rico makes it possible for readers to understand the intimate role that Jews have played in the devleopment of Hispanic civilzation.
- Contents:
- I am a rooster
- Tomato Jew
- The tourist
- Centro historico
- Paisanos
- La Juderia
- My face
- I am dead.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780813552262
- 0813552265
- OCLC:
- 777375650
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