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Vol. 1 of Brill's new book series, Jewish Latin America: Issues and Methods, edited by Raanan Rein (TEl Aviv U.), has just been published. Returning to Babel: Jewish Latin American Experiences, Representations, and Identity Edited by Amalia Ran and Jean Axelrad Cahan All relevant info can be found in: http://www.brill.nl/returning-babel Table of contents Introduction: Rethinking Jewish Identity in Latin America Amalia Ran and Jean Axelrad Cahan Part 1. Jewish Latin American Experiences, Past and Present 1. Jewish Latin American Historiography: The Challenges Ahead Raanan Rein 2. Educating Argentine Jews: Sephardim and Their Schools, 19201960 Adriana Brodsky 3. The Jewish Latin American Writer and Tradition: The Case of Sergio Chejfec Sergio Waisman Part 2. Jewishness as Literary Representation 4. Should We Bury the Jewish Gaucho? A New Gerchunoff for the Twenty-First Century Edna Aizenberg 5. Hacer la América: The Diasporic Imagination in Saed's Triple crónica de un hombre Joanna L. Mitchell 6. Judaism, Sexuality, and the Nation in Francisco Goldman's The Divine Husband Ariana Vigil Part 3. Jewish and Lo Latinoamericana in the Arts 7. Borges and the Kabbalah: Pre-Texts to a Text Saúl Sosnowski 8. Music of the Underdog: Sociological and Musical Similarities between Muzika Mizrahit and Salsa Moshe Morad 9. Jewish Puberty in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Constructing Judeo-Latinidad Tzvi Tal Part 4. The Notion of Otherness and the Question of Integration 10. "The Books That Should Not Be Missing in Any Jewish Home": Translation as a Cultural Policy in Argentina, 19191938 Alejandro Dujovne 11. Beyond Identity: Clarice Lispector and the Ethical Transcendence of Being for the Other Nelson Vieira 12. Plausible Alternatives in the Jewish Argentinean Integration Game Lourdes Barranco-Cortés 13. Otherness in El árbol de la gitana Dayana Soto y Caballero de Galicia --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
