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This collection presents a series of autobiographical meditations by Ilan Stavans on how language defines every aspect of our life.

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2020 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner for AnthologiesWinner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Yiddish)A momentous and diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America-radical, dangerous, and seductive, but also sweet, generous, and full of life-edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.

A ONE-OF-A-KIND ANTHOLOGY OF THE WORLD'S LINGUA FRANCA: Featuring a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, documents, stories, songs, standup comedy and more by more than 100 English speakers across history?from Julia Alvarez to Dr. Seuss, David Foster Wallace to Amy Tan, Chang-Rae Lee to Russell Hoban, James Baldwin to Jhumpa Lahiri, Susan Sontag to E.B. White, Kendrick Lamar to Donald Trump?THE PEOPLE'S TONGUE is a fascinatin...

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The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories" takes readers from the mid-1800s to the present, encompassing a full spectrum of Jewish writing around the world.

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Ilan Stavans' autobiographischer Text handelt von seinem Leben in vier verschiedenen Sprachen und Kulturen - Jiddisch, Spanisch, Hebräisch und Englisch - den Tücken und Herausforderungen von Übersetzung und davon, was mit Individuen im Übergang zwischen Sprachen und Kulturen passiert. Ursprünglich in Englisch, der vierten Sprache des Autors, verfasst, und damit bewusst auf sprachliche Inauthentizität als ein "immer schon übersetzter, nie origi...

For twenty years, Ilan Stavans has been translating poetry from Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Georgian, and other languages. This volume, which includes poems from more than forty poets from all over the world, is testimony to a life dedicated to the pursuit of beauty through poetry in different languages.

The story of Jewish literature spans the globe as well as the centuries. It includes groups as diverse as the marrano poets and memorialists in medieval Spain, the Yiddish writings of Eastern Europe, the narratives of Jewish immigrants to the United States, the accounts of horror during the Holocaust, the work of Israeli authors since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, and Jewish works in Brazil, Bulgaria, Argentina, and South Africa at...

In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. A portion of proceeds benefit booksellers in need.

Stavans's Ongoing Quest to Find a Convergence Between the Personal and Historical

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, publisher of Restless Books, and host of NPR's podcast In Contrast. He is the recipient of numerous international awards and honors, and his books have been translated into twenty languages. He is the creator, along with Roberto Weil, of the graphic novel adaptation of Don Quixote of La Mancha, also published by Penn State University...

An inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Maya myth of creation by acclaimed Latin American author and scholar Ilan Stavans, gorgeously illustrated by Salvadoran folk artist Gabriela Larios and introduced by renowned author, diplomat, and environmental activist Homero Aridjis.