Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production - Hardcover

by Ariana Huberman (Author)

This book delves into creative renditions of key aspects of Jewish Mysticism in Latin American literature, film, and art from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. This book introduces the work of Latin American authors and artists who have been inspired by Jewish Mysticism from the 1960s to the present.

Author Biography

Ariana Huberman is Associate Professor of Spanish at Haverford College. She is also author of Gauchos and Foreigners: Glossing Culture and Identity in the Argentine Countryside (2011), co-editor of Memoria y Representación. Configuraciones culturales y literarias en el imaginario judío latinoamericano (2006) with Alejandro Meter, and of Evolving Images: Jewish Latin American Cinema (2018) with Nora Glickman. She was born in Argentina and now lives with her family in the Philadelphia suburbs.