Singer's typewriter and mine [[electronic resource] ] : reflections on Jewish culture / / Ilan Stavans

• Autore: Stavans Ilan
• Pubblicazione: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.6
• Soggetto topico: Judaism and literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; Part I : Waiting for Rabbi Harvey; 1. A Visit to Centro Histórico by Steve Sheinkin; Party II : Essays; 2. Singer's Typewriter and Mine; 3. Vilde khaye!; 4. Doctor Esperanto; 5. Letter from Caracas; 6. Harry Houdini; 7. Singer: A Purim Parody; 8. Introduction to Moacyr Scliar's The Centaur in the Garden; 9. O rosten! My rosten!; 10. Juan Gelman's dibaxu; 11. I Found It at the Movies; 12. Translating Tevye; 13. Nora's Will; 14. Thinking Aloud: The Education of Maurice Samuel; 15. Mario Vargas Llosa: Judeophile ; 16. American Jews: Response to Moment 17. The Hate of Norberto Ceresole; 18. Photographing Singer; 19. Is There a God?; 20. Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner without a Name; 21. Borges and Israel: Three Poems; 22. Yiddish South of the Border; 23. Homero Aridjis: Lessons of 1492; 24. Rereading Lionel Trilling: In the American Grain; 25. Mauricio Rosencof; 26. A Personal History of Jewish Reading; 27. Esther Kreitman: The Other Singer; 28. Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer; 29. Philip Roth: The Plagiarist; 30. Bruno Schulz on Stage 183; 31. Sephardic Literature: Unity and Dispersion ; Part III: The Jewish Identity Project 32. What Melting Pot? Multiculturalism and American Jews; Part IV: Conversations ; 33. The Buenos Aires Affair, with Nathan Englander; 34. Humor and Terror, with Marcelo Birmajer; 35. Impostors 'R Us, with Robin Dizard; 36. Nostalgia and Recognition, with Morris Dickstein; 37. A Fine Range of Motion, with Allegra Goodman; Part V: God's Translators; 38. Reflections on the King James Bible, with Verónica Albin; Part VI: Storytelling as Midrash ; 39. People of the Picture Book; Source Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College.
• Titolo autorizzato: Singer's typewriter and mine
• ISBN: 1-283-63457-0; 0-8032-7146-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462021703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Texts and Contexts