Pomegranate Seeds: Latin American Jewish Tales (Jewish Latin America Series) - Tapa blanda

" Nadia Grosser Nagarajan has created a rich and important cultural history of Jews and Jewish life in Latin America." "This collection of folk tales, legends, and true stories that have been handed down by generations of Jews of Latin America are not only of great interest and humor, but also of great inspiration. In addition, through these tales the reader gains an insight into the lives and customs of Jews from Latin American countries." ""Pomegranate Seeds" is a fascinating book filled with rich oral narratives of wisdom, experiences, folk imagination, journeys, history, folktales, cusstoms and traditions--and adventures. . .This splendid collection will never stand on a shelf after a first reading--but rather it will become a favorite travel companion."

This is the first collection of the oral tradition of Latin American Jews to be presented in English. These thirty-four tales span the 500 years of Jewish presence in Latin America and the Caribbean. The folktales and cultural oral narratives were often based on actual events, recorded not only from the Ashkenazi perspective but from the Sephardic and Oriental as well. Like dispersed pomegranate seeds, all the stories come from a common cluster, yet each is a separate kernel. The stories are short, between five and fifteen pages, and each is carefully annotated. In addition to gathering stories from eleven Latin American countries, the author found material in the United States and Israel.