Singer's typewriter and mine

• Verfasst von: Stavans, Ilan [VerfasserIn] [IllustratorIn]
• Titel: Singer's typewriter and mine
• Titelzusatz: reflections on Jewish culture
• Verf.angabe: Ilan Stavans
• Verlagsort: Lincoln
• Verlag: London
• E-Jahr: 2012
• Jahr: [2021]
• Umfang: 353 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 25 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Texts and contexts
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-7136-4
• Schlagwörter: (s)Juden / (s)Literatur / (s)Kultur
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: HU 1729
• Sach-SW: Jews--Social life and customs.
• K10plus-PPN: 716053608

Abstract

Waiting for Rabbi Harvey. A visit to centro historico -- Essays -- Singer's typewriter and mine -- Vilde khaye! -- Doctor Esperanto -- Letter from Caracas -- Harry Houdini -- Singer: a purim parody -- Introduction to Moacyr Scliar's The centaur in the garden -- O r*o*s*t*e*n! my r*o*s*t*e*n! -- Juan Gelman's Dibaxu -- I found it at the movies -- Translating Tevye -- Nora's will -- Thinking aloud: the education of Maurice Samuel -- Mario Vargas Ilosa: judeophile -- American Jews: response to moment -- The hate of Norberto Ceresole -- Photographing Singer -- Is there a God? -- Jacobo Timerman: prisoner without a name -- Borges and Israel: three poems -- Yiddish south of the border -- Homero Aridjis: lessons of 1492 -- Rereading Lionel Trilling: in the American grain -- Mauricio Rosencof: the letters that never came -- A personal history of Jewish reading -- Esther Kreitman: the other singer -- Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer -- Philip Roth: the plagiarist -- Bruno Schulz on stage -- Sephardic literature: unity and dispersion -- The Jewish identity project. What melting pot? multiculturalism and American Jews: oy, are we a pluribus? -- Conversations. The Buenos Aires affair, with Nathan Englander -- Humor and terror, with Marcelo Birmajer -- Impostors r us, with Robin Dizard -- Nostalgia and recognition, with Morris Dickstein -- A fine range of motion, with Allegra Goodman -- God's translators. Reflections on the King James Bible, with Veronica Albin -- Storytelling as Midrash. People of the picture book