I Am of the Tribe of Judah

Poems from Jewish Latin America

Stephen A. Sadow

• Publisher: UNM Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Literature
• Print ISBN:
  9780826365781
• Subtopic: Poetry
• eBook ISBN:
  9780826365798
• Index: Literature

The first anthology of its kind, I Am of the Tribe of Judah: Poems from Jewish Latin America brings together poetry from the Mexican border to the tip of South America. Originally written in Spanish, Portuguese, Yiddish, Ladino, Casteidish, and Hebrew, these poems have been translated into English, many for the first time, by a group of prize-winning translators.

This multilingual collection looks at the tradition across more than five hundred years, featuring poems that exalt being Jewish, whether Ashkenazi or Sephardic, and poems that express humor and satire. Conversely, there are poems in response to anti-Semitism and poems of exile, of protest, and of the Holocaust. In a different mode, there are wondrous poems on mysticism and Kabbalah.

The book includes an insightful introduction and historical background by world-renowned literary and social critic Ilan Stavans, professor at Amherst College.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Editor’s Note
• Introduction. Swaying To and Fro
• Juan Bautista Corvera (Attributed) (Spain & Mexico)
• Leonor de Carvajal y Andrade (Spain & Mexico)
• Luis de Carvajal the Younger (Spain & Mexico)
• Gonzalo Pérez Ferro (Spain & Mexico)
• Yitzkhok Berliner (Poland & Mexico)
• Shloyme Kleinberg (Poland & Colombia)
• Moishe Pinchevsky (Bessarabia & Argentina)
• Jacobo Glantz (Ukraine & Mexico)
• Jevel Katz (Lithuania & Argentina)
• Moishe Glikovski (Poland & Mexico)
• Carlos Grünberg (Argentina)
• César Tiempo (Ukraine & Argentina)
• Lázaro Liacho (Argentina)
• Simón Zeleviansky (Belarus & Venezuela & Iran)
• Lucia Aizim (Brazil)
• Julia Galimare (Uruguay)
• Humberto Costantini (Argentina)
• Arminda Ralesky (Argentina)
• Andrés Berger-Kiss (Hungary & Colombia)
• Leonor Scliar-Cabral (Brazil)
• Héctor Yánover (Argentina)
• Juan Gelman (Argentina)
• Saúl Yurkievich (Argentina & France)
• Raúl Hecht (Uruguay)
• Marcos Silber (Argentina)
• Rosita Kalina (Costa Rica)
• Eliahu Toker (Argentina)
• Sara Riwka B’raz Erlich (Brazil)
• Angelina Muñiz-Huberman (France & Mexico)
• Alejandra Pizarnik (Argentina)
• Miryam Gover de Nasatsky (Argentina)
• Luisa Futoransky (Argentina & France)
• David Turkeltaub (Chile)
• Aída Gelbtrunk (Uruguay)
• José Kozer (Cuba & United States)
• Juana Ciesler (Argentina)
• Carlos Jacobo Levy (Argentina)
• Ricardo Feierstein (Argentina)
• Hjalmar Flax (Puerto Rico)
• Ariel Dorfman (Argentina & Chile & United States)
• Gloria Gervitz (Mexico & United States)
• Isaac Goldemberg (Peru & United States)
• Manuela Fingueret (Argentina)
• Evelyn Wertheimer (Uruguay)
• Bella Clara Ventura (Colombia & Israel)
• Tamara Kamenzsain (Argentina)
• Luis Kleiman (Costa Rica)
• Becky Rubinstein F. (Mexico)
• Daniel Samoilovich (Argentina)
• Moacir Amâncio (Brazil)
• Irene Gruss (Argentina)
• Susana Grimberg (Argentina)
• Juana García Abás (Spain & Cuba)
• Nora Strejilevich (Argentina & United States)
• Perla Sneh (Argentina)
• Sandro Cohen (United States & Mexico)
• Rubén Ackerman (Venezuela)
• Marjorie Agosín (Chile & United States)
• Ruth Behar (Cuba & United States)
• Daniel Chirom (Argentina)
• Myriam Moscona (Mexico)
• Perla Schwartz (Mexico)
• Gerardo Lewin (Argentina)
• Andrés Bohoslavsky (Argentina)
• Sonia Chacrón (Venezuela)
• Ilan Stavans (Mexico & United States)
• Jenny Asse Chayo (Mexico)
• María Gabriela Mizraje (Argentina)
• Jacqueline Goldberg (Venezuela)
• José Luis Fariñas (Cuba)
• David Preiss (Chile)
• Leandro Sarmatz (Brazil)
• Andrés Neuman (Argentina & Spain)
• Sigalit Tevet (Chile & Israel & Botswana)
• List of Translators
• List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
• Permissions
• Index of Titles and First Lines