Singer's Typewriter and Mine

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College.

• 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

"In short, Stavans is an old-fashioned intellectual, a brilliant interpreter of his triple heritage-Jewish, Mexican, and American."-Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Henry Louis Gates Jr. "Stavans's charming and erudite prose will draw in even those unfamiliar with his subjects."-Publishers Weekly starred review Publishers Weekly "[Singer's Typewriter and Mine is an] eye-opening book-lover's book."-Ray Olson, Booklist -- Ray Olson Booklist "This major collection of Ilan Stavans's shorter writings confirms his place as a premier interpreter of the Jewish experience in the Americas."-Philip K. Jason, Jewish Book Council -- Philip K. Jason Jewish Book Council "A wonderful collection... Stavans is an engaged cultural observer with a gift for the written word."-Sonia Smith, Association of Jewish Libraries -- Sonia Smith Association of Jewish Libraries