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Ladino Poems

By Juan Gelman; Edited and translated by Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press
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I Am of the Tribe of Judah

Poems from Jewish Latin America

Edited by Stephen A. Sadow; Introduction by Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press
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Yiddish South of the Border

An Anthology of Latin American Yiddish Writing

Edited by Alan Astro; Introduction by Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press

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.

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Like a Bride and Like a Mother

By Rosa Nissán; Translated by Dick Gerdes; Introduction by Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press
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Secrecy and Deceit

The Religion of the Crypto-Jews

By David M. Gitlitz; Introduction by Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press

Comprehensive history of crypto-Jewish beliefs and social customs.

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The Martyr

Luis de Carvajal, A Secret Jew in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

Indicted by the Inquisition and burned at the stake in 1596 at the age of thirty, Luis left valuable literary documents--his memoirs, his last will and testament, and his letters to his mother and sisters in the inquisitorial prison.

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The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar

By Moacyr Scliar; Translated by Eloah F. Giacomelli; Introduction by Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press

From Brazil's most distinguished and important Jewish writer comes this anthology of powerful stories, bringing a compelling voice of the Jewish Diaspora to the English language.

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The Book of Memories

By Ana María Shua; Translated by Dick Gerdes; Introduction by Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press

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

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The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas

University of New Mexico Press

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

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