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Mole Latkes: A Hybrid Eastern European-Mexican Jewish Culture
EX427_2604 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, explains his family and community's fusion of Ashkenazi culture with Mexican culture, leading to some interesting culinary innovations.More from this...
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Ilan Stavans Describes his Yiddish Education in Mexico City
EX427_2607 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, remembers his Yiddish primary school, which had a strong ideological bent in favor of the preservation of Yiddish language and culture against what it saw...
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Yiddish to Relate to the Past: Ilan Stavans on Languages as Glasses that...
EX427_2609 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, talks about language as a lens through which to understand the world, and how Yiddish, Spanish, and Hebrew functioned for the community in which he grew...
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"A State of Fear": Economic Collapse and Anti-Semitism in Mexico in the 1980s
EX427_2611 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, talks about his time participating in the Jewish paramilitary group Bitakhon, in response to antisemitism (or the fear thereof) in Mexico and throughout...
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El Iluminado: The Story of Luis de Carabajal
EX427_2612 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, talks about his graphic novel El Iluminado (a collaboration with artist Steve Sheinkin), which tells the story of crypto-Jew Luis de Carabajal, who was...
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The Jewish Grandparents' Kiss in the Square of a Spanish Inquisition Burning
EX427_2614 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, talks about the history of crypto- and Sephardi Jews in Mexico, as well as the Jewish-Mexican experience more broadly, and relates the story of the...
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Golemito, the Nahuatl Golem
EX427_2615 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, describes his children's book Golemito, inspired by Eastern European Jewish mythology, the Nahuatl poetry he grew up reading, and his adventures with his...
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"A Cultural Jew with Very Strong Faith Defined by Ambivalence": Ilan Stavans...
EX427_2616 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, considers faith, doubt, and the ineffable possibility of the divine.More from this narrator: Ilan Stavans
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"I Think I Am Here in Order to Think": Ilan Stavans on Jewishness,...
EX427_2617 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, discusses freedom, emotion, and "the Jewishness of thinking together with others."More from this narrator: Ilan Stavans
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"Daring" to Find Out Who You Are: Ilan Stavans on Writing and Jewish Identity
EX427_2620 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, discusses literature, Jewishness, and the fluidness and mutability of identity. More from this narrator: Ilan Stavans
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"Daring" to Find Out Who You Are: Ilan Stavans on Writing and Jewish Identity
EX427_2620 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, discusses literature, Jewishness, and the fluidness and mutability of identity.
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The Jewish Geography of Mexico City
EX427_2605 lan Stavans, academic and writer, describes the growth and development of Mexico City's Jewish community, including the neighborhoods where different generations lived.More from this...
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My Father, "Rebel" Actor of the Mexican Jewish Community
EX427_2606 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, talks about his parents' lives and professions, and how they diverged sharply from what was expected in the Mexican Jewish community.More from this...
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Four Languages Coexisting in Jewish Mexican Life
EX427_2608 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, recalls the the linguistic divisions of his childhood: Spanish spoken here, Yiddish there, and never the twain shall meet. Then Hebrew and English began...
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"I Want to Provoke Thought": Ilan Stavans on Writing
EX427_2618 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, talks about his academic and literary inspirations, and his philosophy of writing.More from this narrator: Ilan Stavans
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