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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View Article“A Fairytale Quality”: Topics of Moshe Dluzhnowsky’s Writing
EX426_2659 Henry Dunow, the son of Yiddish writer Moyshe Dluzhnowsky, gives an overview of his father's writing. He discusses how Dluzhnowsky's range of literary mediums– novels, plays, journalism and...
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