Nuestra América : my family in the vertigo of translation /
"A riveting exploration of the intersecting lines of Jewish and indigenous Latin American thought and culture, by way of a family memoir. In Our America, eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz traces his grandparents' exile from Eastern Europe to South America. At the same ti...
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New York :
Other Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the language of paradise
- Citizens of the world
- Unstable affiliations
- Why Misha left
- Emancipation and emigration
- Their first America
- Lisa Noemí Milstein
- The Amauta
- Jewish Americanism
- Expulsion
- The debacle
- Adulthood
- Genocide
- The national disease
- Colombian refuge
- Family life
- The need for a new world
- The limits of adaptation
- The limits of translation
- Dialectic of silence
- National liberation
- Israel
- Larissa and Cinna
- Return to Colombia
- How the marginalized survive
- My nationality
- Childhood as a collective achievement
- God's face
- Geology of Machu Picchu
- Sina and Cinna
- Sina Aronsfrau
- What's in a name?
- The Aronsfrau murder
- Envy
- Poor Cinna
- Author of my days
- Bigger smaller
- Mesohippus
- Rainbow scarab
- Final (bar mitzvah).
