Otrarse

Otrarse PDF Author: Juan Gelman
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826366805
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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One of Latin American’s most important poets of the twentieth century, Juan Gelman (1930–2014) spent much of his life in exile from his native Argentina during the Dirty War. Gelman was a child of Yiddish-speaking Ukrainian immigrants, and a significant, seldom recognized portion of his poetry dealt with Jewish themes. He established a dialogue across time with Santa Teresa de Ávila and San Juan de la Cruz, the sixteenth-century Spanish mystical poets whose ancestry was also Jewish. He rewrote portions of the Bible, medieval Hebrew poetry, and even taught himself Ladino, the language of Sephardic Jews, and wrote a book of poems in it. In this bilingual volume, celebrated scholar Ilan Stavans retraces Gelman’s regard for these poetic ancestors, translating into English his Jewish oeuvre by carefully preserving the Hebrew, Spanish, and Ladino echoes of the originals. The result is historically accurate and artistically exhilarating, repositioning Gelman as a major Jewish writer of the last century.

Otrarse

Otrarse PDF Author: Juan Gelman
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826366805
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
One of Latin American’s most important poets of the twentieth century, Juan Gelman (1930–2014) spent much of his life in exile from his native Argentina during the Dirty War. Gelman was a child of Yiddish-speaking Ukrainian immigrants, and a significant, seldom recognized portion of his poetry dealt with Jewish themes. He established a dialogue across time with Santa Teresa de Ávila and San Juan de la Cruz, the sixteenth-century Spanish mystical poets whose ancestry was also Jewish. He rewrote portions of the Bible, medieval Hebrew poetry, and even taught himself Ladino, the language of Sephardic Jews, and wrote a book of poems in it. In this bilingual volume, celebrated scholar Ilan Stavans retraces Gelman’s regard for these poetic ancestors, translating into English his Jewish oeuvre by carefully preserving the Hebrew, Spanish, and Ladino echoes of the originals. The result is historically accurate and artistically exhilarating, repositioning Gelman as a major Jewish writer of the last century.

Verde amargo | Bitter Green

Verde amargo | Bitter Green PDF Author: Martin Corless-Smith
Publisher: Buenos Aires Poetry
ISBN: 9878470466
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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"Este libro ofrece el caso de estudio perfecto para explorar algo que me parece crucial para la poesía contemporánea: la relación del sinsentido con la belleza del lenguaje, con la belleza descrita provisionalmente como impresiones sensoriales, emocionales, intelectuales o imaginativas, fuertes y positivas, ya sea por sí sola o en alguna de estas combinaciones. Hace tiempo que pienso que lo indecible también debe participar de alguna manera en esta relación. Lo que plantea el tema de la relación entre el sinsentido y lo indecible. ¿Es el sinsentido un intento valiente de articular lo indecible? ¿O es una especie de juego de manos que nos permite vislumbrarlo? Bitter Green está lleno de ejemplos perfectos de bello sinsentido, como los cuatro versos que abren una de sus páginas: “Un alcatraz que atraviesa el óleo no puede / y un pardillo sin siquiera un canto / el invierno salda las cuentas todas / el agua sin cauce sobre la tierra”. "This offers the perfect case study for exploring something that I feel is crucial to contemporary poetry—the relationship of nonsense to beauty in language, particularly written language, with beauty provisionally described as strong and positive sensual, emotional, intellectual, or imaginative impressions, either alone or in some combination. I’ve long thought that the unsayable must somehow also be involved in this relationship. Which raises the question of the relationship between nonsense and the unsayable. Is nonsense a valiant attempt to articulate the unsayable? Or is it a kind of sleight of hand that allows us to catch a glimpse of it? Bitter Green is full of perfect examples of beautiful nonsense, such as the four lines that open one page: “A gannet thru the oil cannot / and a linnet sans a song / the winter is of every count / the water without ground.” - COLE SWENSEN 

Proceedings (English Ed.).

Proceedings (English Ed.). PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1268

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The Book of Memories

The Book of Memories PDF Author: Ana María Shua
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826319487
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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The humorous and moving story of three generations of a Jewish family in Argentina.

Collected Works of Meletij Smotryc'kyj

Collected Works of Meletij Smotryc'kyj PDF Author: Meletiĭ Smotryt︠s︡ʹkyĭ
Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 856

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Meletij Smotryc ́kyj (ca. 1577-1633), a man of great learning and wide cultural horizons, was one of the outstanding figures of the cultural revival in the Ukrainian and Belorussian lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. First as a staunch advocate of Orthodoxy and then after 1627 as an equally ardent defender of the Uniates, Smotryc ́kyj wrote numerous polemical, homiletic, philological, and theological works that well illustrate the complexity of the intense confessional and cultural competition between Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox. This volume reproduces in facsimile the original printed editions of eleven of his most important religious writings, beginning with the famous Threnos (1610) and concluding with Exaethesis (1629). The Introduction surveys the controversial details of Smotryc ́kyj's biography and critically analyzes the corpus of works attributed to him.

The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas

The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas PDF Author: Alberto Gerchunoff
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Originally published in 1910, this stirring depiction of shtetl life in Argentina is once again available in paperback.

Yiddish South of the Border

Yiddish South of the Border PDF Author: Alan Astro
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826363296
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Alan Astro's pioneering collection of Latin American Yiddish writings translated into English includes works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, Colombia, and Cuba. Literature has always served as a refuge for Yiddish speakers, and the Yiddish literature of Latin America reflects the writers' assertions of their political rights. Stories depicting working-class life in Buenos Aires by José Rabinovich and Samuel Rollansky evoke the works of Abraham Cahan and Henry Roth. Rosa Palatnik in Rio de Janeiro, Abraham Weisbaum in Mexico City, José Goldchain in Santiago de Chile, and Salomón Zytner in Montevideo satirize bourgeois aspirations among Jews distancing themselves from their modest backgrounds--one of Philip Roth's major themes. Abraham Josef Dubelman and Aaron Zeitlin in Cuba ponder possible links to the crypto-Jews who came to the New World to escape the Inquisition. Themes of identity permeate Latin American Yiddish writing, and the works featured in this anthology provide a glimpse into Jewish life and culture throughout Latin America. As Ilan Stavans notes in the introduction, "This anthology documents that Yiddish--or, in one of its Spanish spellings, idish--also flourished in Latin America, leaving behind powerfully artistic testaments."

The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar

The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar PDF Author: Moacyr Scliar
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826319111
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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From Brazil's most distinguished and important Jewish writer comes this anthology comprised of six collections: in The Carnival of the Animals, Scliar uses political allegory to convey what was normally censored during the height of repression under Brazil's military regime. These tragicomic stories reveal Scliar's interest in issues of oppression, persecution, holocaust, mutability, and the interplay between good and evil. The Ballad of the False Messiah develops the theme of postponement in the sense that for Jews redemption is always postponed in a vain wait for the Messiah. In The Tremulous Earth Scliar explores cruelty and violence in the tenuous lives of his characters, but his experience as a medical doctor informs his compassion for human frailty. Scliar expands his use of fantasy and magical realism in The Dwarf in the Television Set in topics that range from Jewish prophets to marital revenge. The Enigmatic Eye has been described as a masterpiece evoking the enigmas of art and life, and in Van Gogh's Ear, Scliar uses dark and subtle humor in a collection of biblical parables. Here witchcraft, magic, conundrums, and labyrinths are shown to be part of everyday life. A final autobiographical piece ties the collections together in which Scliar discusses his membership in Jewish, medical, gaucho, and Brazilian "tribes." These powerful stories, individually humorous, bleak, or haunting, together bring a compelling voice of the Jewish Diaspora to the wide readership it deserves.

Like a Bride and Like a Mother

Like a Bride and Like a Mother PDF Author: Rosa Nissán
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826323650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 641

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These two autobiographical novels lay bare the life journey of a Mexican Jewish woman reconciling herself with a Sephardic background, her parent's dictates, and her husband's and family's expectations. The only constant in her life is a need to find her own way, and the story of how she does so is intensely personal and yet universal in its humanness. This quest begins in Oshinica's childhood: at about age ten she's taken from the public school in Mexico City and placed in a Jewish one. There she begins to understand what it means to be Jewish. Though somewhat indifferent to Hebrew lessons, she warms to the teacher who shares experiences of the Holocaust and learns that being Jewish means being different. Oshinica's family thwarts her desire to enter the university and instead she's pushed into marriage at age seventeen. Children follow quickly, four in all, and into the 1960s Oshinica tries to be a dutiful wife and mother while continuing to be an obedient daughter. But the insular Jewish neighborhood that sheltered and defined her life is impinged upon as modernity transforms Mexico City. Seeing films like the Fellini movie 8 1/2 and experiencing a culturally changing capital city sets her on a quest for her own voice and space. Eventually she separates and divorces, supports herself as a commercial photographer, and enrolls in a creative writing course taught by Elena Poniatowska, one of Mexicoás most prominent women authors. The short pieces begun in that course evolved into these two novels. The remarkable story they tell is how Oshinicaás many, and often painful, journeys of discovery led to a personal peace. áIáve never met a person so natural and spontaneous. Rosa Nissán adapts herself to life the way a plant adapts itself to the soil or the sun.ááElena Poniatowska

Passion, Memory, and Identity

Passion, Memory, and Identity PDF Author: Marjorie Agosín
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826320490
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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A lively analysis of the major contribution of Jewish women writers in Latin America.