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A cultural critic of extraordinary erudition, encyclopedic knowledge, and boundless curiosity, Ilan Stavans, an Ashkenazic Jew who grew up in Mexico, negotiates wildly varied topics as effortlessly and deftly as he manages the multiple perspectives of a dual national, religious, and ethnic identity. In Singer's Typewriter and Mine, a follow-up to The Inveterate Dreamer (Nebraska, 2001), Stavans interweaves his own experience with that of other Jewish writers and thinkers, past and present, to explore modern Jewish culture across the boundaries of language and nation. Juxtaposing the personal and the analytical, these essays and conversations take up the oeuvres of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Mario Vargas Llosa, translation and God's language, storytelling as midrash, anti-Semitism in Hispanic America, Yiddish and Sephardic literatures, the connection between humor and terror, impostors as cultural agents, the creators of the King James Bible, and the encounter between Jewish and Latino civilizations, to name but a few of Stavans's topics here. Funny, engaging, and provocative, this collection continues Stavans's project of opening new vistas in our cross-cultural understanding of language, literature, and life.
Contents
Part I: Waiting for Rabbi Harvey 1. A Visit to Centro Historico Part 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 r*o*s*t*e*n! My r*o*s*t*e*n! 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: The Letters that Never Came 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 31. Sephardic Literature: Unity and Dispersion Part III: The Jewish Identity Project 32. What Melting Pot? Multiculturalism and American Jews: Oy, Are We a Pluribus? 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 Veronica Albin Part VI: Storytelling as Midrash 39. People of the Picture Book Source Acknowledgments
