Miriam's Daughters

by Agosin, Marjorie; Gordenstein, Roberta

• ISBN13: 9781890932138
• ISBN10: 1890932132
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Sherman Asher Pub

Summary

Presents a bilingual collection of poems by Jewish Latin American women.

Table of Contents

Miriam	10	(3)
Marjorie Agosin
Foreword	13	(9)
Genealogies
A Child is Born	22	(2)
Elina Wechsler
My Name is Shlomit	24	(2)
Schlomit Baytelman
A scene of return is sketched	26	(4)
Mercedes Roffee
The Girl Refugee	30	(2)
Matilde Salganicoff
Every Month	32	(2)
Teresa Porzecanski
Prodigal Daughter	34	(2)
Angelina Muniz Huberman
That Jewish crusader	36	(2)
Diana Anhalt
Lilith, Adam's First Companion	38	(2)
Elina Wechsler
Coincidence	40	(2)
Aida Gelbtrunk
Survivals	42	(2)
Ruth Behar
I am of the tribe of Yehuda	44	(2)
Rosita Kalina
Second Portrait	46	(5)
Manuela Fingueret
Nightmare	51	(3)
Matilde Salganicoff
Illuminations
ToVu-VaVoHu	54	(2)
Manuela Fingueret
Fire and Embers	56	(2)
Legnor Scliar-Cabral
Sephirot	58	(2)
Manuscript	60	(2)
Angelina Muniz Huberman
Obsession	62	(4)
Ritual	66	(2)
Rosita Kalina
The Cabalists	68	(2)
Angelina Muniz Huberman
Sanctuary	70	(2)
Ablution	72	(2)
The Cabalistic Rabbis	74	(2)
Rosita Kalina
All illusion is a form of hope	76	(2)
Aida Gelbtrunk
The Circle of the Golem	78	(2)
Angelina Muniz Huberman
The Eye of Creation	80	(2)
Golem and Rabbi III	82	(2)
Ana Maria Shua
Golem and Rabbi IV	84	(2)
Golem and Rabbi V	86	(2)
It is still early	88	(4)
Elvira Levy
The Texture of Memory
Desert I	92	(2)
Monica Mansur
My memory	94	(2)
Deceiving Words	96	(2)
Leonor Scliar-Cabral
Torah Braids	98	(2)
Tamara Kamenszain
Eliahu	100	(4)
Return II	104	(4)
Mea Shearim	108	(4)
From Yiskor	112	(8)
Gloria Gervitz
Life is nothing but time	120	(2)
Existing	122	(2)
Alejandra Pizarnik
Deaf Lantern	124	(2)
To Anne Frank	126	(2)
Rosita Kalina
Once Again, Anne Frank	128	(2)
Elina Wechsler
The Jewish Cemetery in Guanabacoa	130	(4)
Ruth Behar
The Books of the Dead	134	(2)
Marta Kornblith
Los Padres	136	(2)
Parents
Verguenza
Shame	138	(2)
Matilde Salganicoff
Luba I	140	(2)
Jacqueline Goldberg
Luba II	142	(2)
Luba III	144	(2)
My Father	146	(2)
Manuela Fingueret
The Trains	148	(4)
Sarina Helfgott
Twenty Years from Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Other Camps	152	(2)
Luisa Futuransky
The Empty House	154	(2)
Aida Gelbtrunk
What Matters	156	(4)
Teresa Porzecanski
Cascades of Death	160	(6)
Angelina Muniz Huberman
Inventing Fables about the Stone	166	(2)
Julia Galemire
Mirrors	168	(2)
Marta Kornblith
Being an Immigrant	170	(2)
Matilde Salganicoff
Auschwitz Garden	172	(2)
Myriam Moscona
Traveling Valise	174	(4)
Marjorie Agosin
Garden of Shanah	178	(2)
Sara Riwka Erlich
When they robbed me of my name	180	(6)
Nora Strejilevich
86 Pasteur Corner	186	(4)
Manuela Fingueret
Excerpts from Saltos Sobre el Exilio	190	(4)
Alicia Kozameh
Jerusalem
More Chagall Than Chagall	194	(2)
Luisa Futuransky
Jerusalem, timeless	196	(2)
Genesis (Chapter VII, verse 5)	198	(2)
Manuela Fingueret
Leviticus (Chapter XII, Verse. 2-5)	200	(2)
Psalms (Chapter CXXXVII Vers 5-6)	202	(2)
Games at the hour of the desert	204	(2)
Israel Revisited	206	(2)
Luisa Futuransky
Jerusalem	208	(2)
Manuela Fingueret
Eve in Eden	210	(2)
Sefarad	212	(2)
Olga Weisz Klein
Jerusalem	214	(4)
Sara Riwka Erlich
Jerusalem, I am a pilgrim	218	(2)
Olga Weisz Klein
Gradually	220	(2)
Elvira Levy
God said to Abraham	222	(2)
Aida Gelbtrunk
Testimonies	224	(2)
Rosita Kalina
Jerusalem, A Whirling Glass	226	(3)
Luisa Futuransky
Author biographies	229	(6)
Index of Authors	235	(2)
Index of Translators	237