This book chronicles the meetings between the author and Aldo Izzo, a man who has tended the Venetian Jewish cemeteries for over 30 years. This work goes far beyond a…

Features Latin American women of Jewish descent, from Mexico to Uruguay, who recall their coming of age with Sabbath candles and Hebrew prayers, Ladino songs and merengue music, Queen Esther…

When her beloved country, Chile, is taken over by a militaristic, sadistic government, Celeste is sent to America for her safety and her parents must go into hiding before they…

I only wanted to write about them, Narrate their fierce audacity, Their voyages through the channels of the Mediterranean. With that stanza, a poetic journey begins in search of presence…

Marjorie Agosin is an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, and activist, as well as Professor of Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College. The United Nations has honored…

This new edition of The House of Memory revisits the meaning of heritage and home, exploring the experience of losing the familiar to embrace the unknown. While often painful in…

This contributed volume is a collection of international writings on dance, human rights, and social justice in the 20th and 21st centuries. The book illuminates and analyzes dance in contexts…