Querida Juana, The recent edition of your Selected Works (tr. Edith Grossman) has kept me company this month. As I found myself immersed in your ballads, redondillas,…… Read more “Let us learn about not knowing”
Month: May 2016
Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (English: Sister Joan Agnes of the Cross; born Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana; Mexico, 12 November 1651 –…… Read more “Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz”
20 Books of Summer and more
Hello, lovely readers, Spring term is in full blast, so I haven’t been able to write to you lately. There are some great books I read in…… Read more “20 Books of Summer and more”
Who can live with a volcano?
Dear Esther, How can one read a volcano? Your semi-autobiographical novel Deborah (Der Shaidim Tantz, 1936, tr. Maurice Carr) can be subtly misleading: behind its veil of…… Read more “Who can live with a volcano?”
Esther Kreitman
Esther Kreitman (Hinde Ester Singer Kreytman, 31 March 1891 – 13 June 1954) was a Yiddish-language writer, born in Biłgoraj, Poland, to a Jewish family. For the first three years…… Read more “Esther Kreitman”