The scroll and the cross : 1,000 years of Jewish-Hispanic literature / edited by Ilan Stavans.

Other author Stavans, Ilan.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York, NY ; London : Routledge, 2003.
Descriptionx, 329 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Spanish American literature--Translations into English.
Spanish literature--Translations into English.
Spanish American literature--Jewish authors. --Translations into English.
Spanish literature--Jewish authors. --Translations into English.
Jews in literature.

Contents Samuel Hanagid -- Solomon ben Gabirol -- Moisés ben Ezra -- Yehuda Halevi -- Benjamin of Tudela -- Yehuda ben Tibbon -- Maimonides -- Gonzalo de Berceo -- Nahmanides -- Alfonso X the Wise -- Moisés de León -- Kings Ferdinand and Isabella -- Fray Luis de León -- Luis de Carvajal the Younger -- Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas -- Miguel Leví de Barrios -- Miguel de Unamuno -- Rubén Darío -- Alberto Gerchunoff -- Américo Castro --
Contents Samuel Eichelbaum -- Federico García Lorca -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Pinkhes Berniker -- Julio Cortázar -- Jacobo Timerman -- Salomón Isacovici -- Marshall T. Meyer -- Mario Vargas Llosa -- Angelina Muníz-Huberman -- Rosa Nissán -- Alicia Freilich -- Homero Aridjis -- Ariel Dorfman -- Isaac Goldemberg -- Tino Villanueva -- Alcina Lubitch Domecq -- Marjorie Agosín -- Ruth Behar -- Ilan Stavans.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 29-32) and index.
LanguageContains prose excerpts and poems translated into English, mostly from Spanish.
LCCN 2003271495
ISBN041592930X (hb; alk. paper)
ISBN0415929318 (pbk.)