Scroll and the Cross

Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This groundbreaking eclectic book of readings edited by Ilan Stavans whom The Washington Post described as one of our foremost cultural critics offers a sideboard of the ups and downs of that partnership. It includes some seventy canonical authors Jews and non-Jews alike through whose diverse oeuvre-poetry fiction theater personal and philosophical essays correspondence historical documents and even kitchen recipes-the reader is able to navigate the shifting waters of history from Spain in the tenth century to the Spanish-speaking Americas and the United States today. The Reader showcases the writings of such notable authors as Solomon ibn Gabirol Maimonides Miguel de Cervantes Henry W. Longfellow Miguel de Unamuno Federico García Lorca Jorge Luis Borges Jacobo Timerman Mario Vargas Llosa Ruth Behar and Ariel Dorfman to name only a few.