The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America

by Ilan Stavans

Book Overview

Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date back to Christopher Columbus's arrival. In the tradition of V.S. Naipaul's explorations of India, the Caribbean, and the Arab World, he came back with an extraordinarily vivid travelogue. Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822945851
• ISBN13: 9780822945857
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"