From the Pampas to New York, with detours scenes from the life of a jewish gaucha Nora Glickman ; edited by Angy Cohen

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glickman, Nora, author.

Contributor:

Cohen, Angy, editor.

Series:

Jewish Studies (Lived Places Publishing)

Jewish Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography--Jewish authors.

Autobiography.

Jews--Argentina--Pampas.

Jews.

Jewish women--New York (State)--New York.

Jewish women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Lived Places Publishing 2026

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What happens when identity is stretched across continents, languages, and cultures? In From the Pampas to New York, with Detours, acclaimed scholar and writer Nora Glickman traces a woman's remarkable journey from the Argentine Pampas to Israel and finally to New York. Through a tapestry of autobiographical, interwoven stories, Glickman captures the richness and contradictions of a life lived between worlds-between Yiddish and Spanish, tradition and rebellion, home and exile. Each stage of the narrator's journey reveals the complexity of belonging and the resilience of the human spirit. From the innocence of childhood in a Jewish-Argentine community to the challenges of adapting to new languages and cultural landscapes, Glickman paints a portrait of transformation that is both deeply personal and profoundly universal. Her lyrical prose and sharp insight into migration, feminism, and identity illuminate how one woman's search for self becomes an act of creative reclamation

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

Introduction

Abstract

Notes and discussion questions

Learning objectives

1 Childhood: My years as a boy

Juan, tame and wild

The last of the settlers

My years as a boy

At the movies

A wind at dawn

My cousin Elenita

Fire in the farm

Notes

2 Adolescence: The crucial years

The broken necklace

The gloved hand

How I became who I am

3 Adulthood: New York, New York

A day in New York

Rereading "The unbearable sadness of hotel rooms"

Door half open

Epilogue

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Other Format:

Print version From the Pampas to New York, with detours : scenes from the life of a jewish gaucha.

ISBN:

9781918026078

9781918026085

OCLC:

1593397892

Publisher Number:

DOI