Returning to Babel

Amalia Ran, Ph.D. (2007) in Spanish, University of Maryland, is Assistant Professor of contemporary Latin American literature at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, and a Research Fellow at the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies in Tel-Aviv University. She has published on Latin American literature and Jewish Latin American culture, including Made of Shores: Judeo Argentinean Fiction Revisited, forthcoming by Lehigh University Press (2011). Jean Axelrad Cahan, Ph.D (1983) The Johns Hopkins University, is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has published articles on Spinoza, Marx and modern Jewish thought.

• Introduction: Rethinking Jewish Identity in Latin America Amalia Ran and Jean Axelrad CahanPart 1. Jewish Latin American Experiences, Past and Present1. Jewish Latin American Historiography: The Challenges Ahead Raanan Rein2. Educating Argentine Jews: Sephardim and Their Schools, 1920–1960 Adriana Brodsky3. The Jewish Latin American Writer and Tradition: The Case of Sergio Chejfec Sergio WaismanPart 2. Jewishness as Literary Representation4. Should We Bury the Jewish Gaucho? A New Gerchunoff for the Twenty-First Century Edna Aizenberg5. Hacer la América: The Diasporic Imagination in Saed’s Triple crónica de un hombre Joanna L. Mitchell6. Judaism, Sexuality, and the Nation in Francisco Goldman’s The Divine Husband Ariana VigilPart 3. Jewish and Lo Latinoamericana in the Arts7. Borges and the Kabbalah: Pre-Texts to a Text Saúl Sosnowski8. Music of the Underdog: Sociological and Musical Similarities between Muzika Mizrahit and Salsa Moshe Morad9. Jewish Puberty in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Constructing Judeo-Latinidad Tzvi TalPart 4. The Notion of Otherness and the Question of Integration10. “The Books That Should Not Be Missing in Any Jewish Home”: Translation as a Cultural Policy in Argentina, 1919–1938 Alejandro Dujovne11. Beyond Identity: Clarice Lispector and the Ethical Transcendence of Being for the Other Nelson Vieira12. Plausible Alternatives in the Jewish Argentinean Integration Game Lourdes Barranco-Cortés13. Otherness in El árbol de la gitana Dayana Soto y Caballero de Galicia