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Radio St. Pete Podcast ArchiveAMERICA the BILINGUAL E78 Steve Leveen interviews Ilan Stavans, a Tocqueville for our century“The more languages you speak,” observes Ilan Stavans, who speaks several, “the more capacity you have either to experience this world as a multilayered place, or to live in multiple universes at the same time.”
Ilan still remembers how, when as a youngster he and his family immigrated to New York City, “the juxtaposition of languages would become remarkable to me as an aspect of how languages are born, how languages remain alive, and even how they might die.” The word “immigrant” came up frequently in Steve’s conversation with Ilan. Its Latin root means “to move from one place to another.” In...
2025-10-1729 min
America the Bilingual78 - Season 6 - Meet Ilan Stavans, a Tocqueville for our centuryProfessor/publisher/author/OED consultant Ilan Stavans has written books about all three of the languages he speaks: his native Mexican Spanish, his heritage Yiddish, and his adopted English. In Episode 78, Ilan and Steve have a far-ranging conversation that touches on how American literature is becoming multilingual literature, why prescriptive dictionaries don’t work for English, and the secret to seeing your children embrace the language of their heritage. Listen and you’ll soon know why America the Bilingual has dubbed him a Tocqueville for bilingualism in America. Enjoy!
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HoliznaCC0 - Tranquil Mindscape ( Lofi , Happ...
2025-09-2429 min
One True PodcastOne True Book Club: The Purple Land, Part 3--with Ilan StavansOne True Podcast concludes its One True Book Club for the year with its third of three installments on W.H. Hudson’s 1885 novel, The Purple Land.This final episode covers chapter 21 to the end. We examine how Hudson resolves the domestic plot, the travel plot, and the confrontation with the diabolical Don Hilario. We debate whether The Purple Land’s climax is or is not even climactic.Then, we call in scholar Ilan Stavans, former OTP guest and editor of the U of Wisconsin Press edition of The Purple Land. Stavans ties up some of o...
2025-08-1157 min
New Books in American StudiesIlan Stavans, "Latino USA: A Cartoon History" (Basic Books, 2024)This interview includes Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Professor of Humanities, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez (UPR-M); Annette Martínez-Iñesta, Instructor of Italian, UPR-M; and Baruch Vergara, Artist and Professor of Plastic Arts, UPR-M. This episode has been sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, the Department of Humanities at the UPR-M, and the Instituto Nuevos Horizontes. This is the second podcast with Ilan Stavans about Latino USA; the first, in Spanish, is available on the New Books Network en español. About the book:In Latino USA, Latin American and Latino scholar Ilan Stavans captures the joys, nuances, and multiple...
2025-02-221h 34
New Books in HistoryIlan Stavans, "Latino USA: A Cartoon History" (Basic Books, 2024)This interview includes Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Professor of Humanities, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez (UPR-M); Annette Martínez-Iñesta, Instructor of Italian, UPR-M; and Baruch Vergara, Artist and Professor of Plastic Arts, UPR-M. This episode has been sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, the Department of Humanities at the UPR-M, and the Instituto Nuevos Horizontes. This is the second podcast with Ilan Stavans about Latino USA; the first, in Spanish, is available on the New Books Network en español. About the book:In Latino USA, Latin American and Latino scholar Ilan Stavans captures the joys, nuances, and multiple...
2025-02-221h 31
New Books in Latino StudiesIlan Stavans, "Latino USA: A Cartoon History" (Basic Books, 2024)This interview includes Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Professor of Humanities, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez (UPR-M); Annette Martínez-Iñesta, Instructor of Italian, UPR-M; and Baruch Vergara, Artist and Professor of Plastic Arts, UPR-M. This episode has been sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, the Department of Humanities at the UPR-M, and the Instituto Nuevos Horizontes. This is the second podcast with Ilan Stavans about Latino USA; the first, in Spanish, is available on the New Books Network en español. About the book:In Latino USA, Latin American and Latino scholar Ilan Stavans captures the joys, nuances, and multiple...
2025-02-221h 31
New Books in Comics and Graphic NovelsIlan Stavans, "Latino USA: A Cartoon History" (Basic Books, 2024)This interview includes Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Professor of Humanities, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez (UPR-M); Annette Martínez-Iñesta, Instructor of Italian, UPR-M; and Baruch Vergara, Artist and Professor of Plastic Arts, UPR-M. This episode has been sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, the Department of Humanities at the UPR-M, and the Instituto Nuevos Horizontes. This is the second podcast with Ilan Stavans about Latino USA; the first, in Spanish, is available on the New Books Network en español. About the book:In Latino USA, Latin American and Latino scholar Ilan Stavans captures the joys, nuances, and multiple...
2025-02-221h 31
Tip of the TongueTip of the Tongue Episode 255: Sabor JudíoIlan Stavans and Margaret E. Boyle have written a book, Savor Judío, which explores the influences of Jews on the cuisine of Mexico. The book is full of sidebars that explain origins and happy mash-ups that can made of a delightful new dish reflecting both Jewish and Mexican cultures. The book discusses holiday treats and surprises like Baba Ganoush con Chile.Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latino Culture at Amherst College. Margaret E. Boyle is Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies at Bowdoin College. Read more about I...
2025-01-0133 min
Novedades editoriales en historiaLatino USA: A Cartoon History, Revised EditionLatino USA: A Cartoon History, Revised Edition (Hachette Book Group, 2024) escrito por Ilan Stavans e ilustrado por Lalo Alcaraz, enfrenta los desafíos de capturar las alegrías, los matices y las múltiples dimensiones de la cultura latina dentro del contexto del idioma inglés. En esta historia en forma de caricatura, Stavans busca combinar la solemnidad de literatura y la historia con la naturaleza inherentemente teatral y humorística de los cómics. Los temas abarcan a Colón, el Destino Manifiesto, el Álamo, William Carlos Williams, Desi Arnaz, West Side Story, Castro, Guevara, Neruda, García Márquez...
2024-12-061h 21
Novedades editoriales en literatura y estudios culturalesLatino USA: A Cartoon History, Revised EditionLatino USA: A Cartoon History, Revised Edition (Hachette Book Group, 2024) escrito por Ilan Stavans e ilustrado por Lalo Alcaraz, enfrenta los desafíos de capturar las alegrías, los matices y las múltiples dimensiones de la cultura latina dentro del contexto del idioma inglés. En esta historia en forma de caricatura, Stavans busca combinar la solemnidad de literatura y la historia con la naturaleza inherentemente teatral y humorística de los cómics. Los temas abarcan a Colón, el Destino Manifiesto, el Álamo, William Carlos Williams, Desi Arnaz, West Side Story, Castro, Guevara, Neruda, García Márquez...
2024-12-061h 21
Novedades editoriales en literatura latinoamericanaLatino USA: A Cartoon History, Revised EditionLatino USA: A Cartoon History, Revised Edition (Hachette Book Group, 2024) escrito por Ilan Stavans e ilustrado por Lalo Alcaraz, enfrenta los desafíos de capturar las alegrías, los matices y las múltiples dimensiones de la cultura latina dentro del contexto del idioma inglés. En esta historia en forma de caricatura, Stavans busca combinar la solemnidad de literatura y la historia con la naturaleza inherentemente teatral y humorística de los cómics. Los temas abarcan a Colón, el Destino Manifiesto, el Álamo, William Carlos Williams, Desi Arnaz, West Side Story, Castro, Guevara, Neruda, García Márquez...
2024-12-061h 21
America the Bilingual75 - Season 6 - Recipe: Mix Jewish with Mexican, Add MaineMeet Margaret Boyle, coauthor with Ilan Stavans of “Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook”. Margaret and Ilan have added their own ingredient to the cookbook: the history behind many of the recipes, some of them their families’, others the history of Jewish immigration to Mexico over the centuries. If you’re a foodie, find history fascinating, or would like to sample the Spanish language through the culinary fusion of Jewish and Mexican cultures, quench your appetite now with Episode 75 of the America the Bilingual podcast.
Thanks to our America the Bilingual team who worked on this episode: Mim Harrison...
2024-11-1727 min
America the Bilingual75 - Season 6 - Recipe: Mix Jewish with Mexican, Add MaineMeet Margaret Boyle, coauthor with Ilan Stavans of “Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook”. Margaret and Ilan have added their own ingredient to the cookbook: the history behind many of the recipes, some of them their families’, others the history of Jewish immigration to Mexico over the centuries. If you’re a foodie, find history fascinating, or would like to sample the Spanish language through the culinary fusion of Jewish and Mexican cultures, quench your appetite now with Episode 75 of the America the Bilingual podcast.
Thanks to our America the Bilingual team who worked on this episode: Mim Harrison, our edito...
2024-11-1627 min
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2024-10-1000 min
Taste Buds With DebSabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook & Brisket Tacos with Ilan Stavans & Margaret BoyleOn this episode of Taste Buds with Deb, host Debra Eckerling speaks with Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle, authors of "Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook." "The book is a celebration of Jewish Mexican identity, but it also is a celebration of all diaspora identity and how people connect with culture and movement through food," says Boyle, director of Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies at Bowdoin College and associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures. Featuring 100 personal recipes, enjoyed by Mexican Jews around the world, "Sabor Judío" shares the vi...
2024-10-0924 min
Boston Public Radio PodcastBest Of BPR 10/7: For Maya Roman, Every Day Is Oct. 7 & Ilan Stavans On Shared GriefToday:We mark one year since Hamas terrorists from Gaza invaded Israel, killing more than 1,000 Israelis, and taking 250 hostage. In the 12 months since, Israel’s military response has resulted in more than 40,000 deaths of Palestinians – the majority civilians. We talk with Maya Roman, a relative of one of the hostages, Carmel Gat, who was killed in August in captivity. And, we reflect with Amherst College professor Ilan Stavans about the shared grief for Israelis, Palestinians and the world at large… but we’ll also appreciate a little joy. Tomorrow, Ilan publishes his great new Jewish-Mexican cookbook...
2024-10-0734 min
The Fabulous 413May 23, 2024: Friendship, Odenong, and hubbubsWe talk with organizer and founder of the Odenong Pow Wow, Justin Beatty, delve into the pages of a tri-literate children's book seeking to bridge cultural divides with translator Eliezer Nowodworsky and publisher Ilan Stavans, and our weekly chat with congressman Jim McGovern barely scratches the surface of the very publicly busy week he's had.
2024-05-2350 min
Gods & Ghouls#16 The Hero Twins & The Lizard ManWelcome to episode 16.....not to be confused with episode 20. Jack recants the Myan myth of the Hero Twins as Jana takes it way too literally. Then Jana introduces us to the Southern cryptid known as the Lizard Man. Sites & Sources:The Mythology Book - “The Hero Twins”Youtube - Ted-Ed - The twins who tricked the Maya gods of death - Ilan StavansWorld BirdsMacaws{wiki}{bishopville}{youtube}{youtube Carnufex} Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
2024-05-2343 min
The Fabulous 413February 26, 2024: Flavorful language landingWe take a glance at the Point/Counterpoint speaker series with moderator professor Ilan Stavans, hear about a corporate lunar landing and what that could mean for the future of the moon with Mr. Universe, and head to Pittfield to get a taste of the Carribean at the newest eatery on North St.: BB's Hot Spot.
2024-02-2749 minBoston Public Radio PodcastBest Of BPR: Professor Ilan Stavans And Our President's Day QuizBest Of BPR: Professor Ilan Stavans And Our President's Day Quiz
2024-02-1940 min
迟早更新Episode 209: 37.77, -122.42 「只有当视线目光追随一个接着一个的物象时，才能窥看出整体的样貌。」
今日「两样」：
Little's 速溶咖啡
帽子的青梅
Show Notes:
Indermit S. Gill 和 Homi Kharas 的文章《The Middle-Income Trap Turns Ten》
王家卫导演的电影《春光乍泄》
自由之竿（Liberty pole）的维基百科页面
欧仁·德拉克罗瓦的画《自由引导人民》（La Liberté guidant le peuple）
2024 巴黎奥运会的吉祥物页面
巴罗洛宫（Palacio Barolo）的网站
Jessica Harrison-Hall 和 Julia Lovell 的书《China's Hidden Century：1796-1912》
《英国日记》#10《大英博物馆晚清百态特展》
《迟早更新》#13《为了录这期节目，我们假装去 HOUSE VISION 逛了逛》
《南京条约》（Treaty of Nanking）的维基百科页面
黄绍坚的文章《战虎——中国古代的藤牌兵》
桑椹主编的书《六舟：一位金石僧的艺术世界》
陆易的文章《视觉的游戏——六舟〈百岁图〉释读》
米林宏昌导演的动画电影《借东西的小人阿莉埃蒂》（借りぐらしのアリエッティ）
格林童话里的《小精灵们与鞋匠》（The Elves and the Shoemaker）
白铃安（Nancy Berliner）的文章《波士顿美术馆——迄今为止首个中国八破画的博物馆展览》
王世襄的书《锦灰堆》
《迟早更新》#175《故事新编》
《故事 FM》#738《1997 年，我搬了一栋徽宅去美国（上）》
Erika Denise Edwards 的文章《Why Doesn’t Argentina Have More Black Players in the World Cup?》
中华人民共和国农业农村部国际合作司的境外涉农信息快报（第 420 期）
Ilan Stavans 的文章《El Boom and Its Aftershocks in the Global Marketplace》
Brett Levinson 的书《The Ends of Literature: The Latin American "Boom" in the Neoliberal Marketplace》
Latin American Boom 的维基百科页面
东京工业大学塚本由晴研究室的书《世界之窗：窗边行为学》
原源对塚本由晴的访谈《当代建筑师必须打破的障碍》
塚本由晴的书《東京製造》（Made in Tokyo）
TBS NEWS 的视频《独占取材 「村上春樹ライブラリー」》
丰川斋赫的文章《丹下健三：一位不断建造划时代纪念碑的建筑巨匠》
上海当代艺术博物馆的讲座回顾《塚本由晴：建筑设计的生态型转变》
大堀泉的文章《こんな「ふるまい」ありですか》
钱钟书的文章《窗》
斋普尔城市皇宫（City Palace of Jaipur）的维基百科页面
2024-02-1352 minBoston Public Radio PodcastBest Of BPR 12/11: Joan Donovan's Whistleblower Complaint Against Harvard & Ilan Stavans On GenocideBest Of BPR 12/11: Joan Donovan's Whistleblower Complaint Against Harvard & Ilan Stavans On Genocide
2023-12-1139 min
Hub Happenings25: Reading & SpanishMr. Zepeda and Mrs. Maciel visited HubsREAD to discuss some of their favorite short stories, poems, and novels--as well as reading and speaking in English and Spanish--with hosts Chris and Manny. Links:Juan Rulfo's stories in Español and in EnglishJuan Rulfo reading from his fiction (Library of Congress file)"Undocumented Joy" by Yosimar Reyes"Mi Problema" by Michele SerrosSelena, a film from 1997What is translanguaging?Linguist Ofelia GarcíaWe Are Not From Here (No Somos De Aquí) by Jenny Torres SanchezMaximiliano (Emperor of t...
2023-10-1033 min
The Epicurean Vagabonds present Aesthetic ArrestCorsican Culinary Delights, The Popol Vuh, The Rise and Fall of the Maya & Mawaan Rizwan's Juice!Plus Roberto Fonseca, Yungchen Lhamo, Edward Lear, Ilan Stavans & Gabriela Larios!Reading: Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica by Edward Lear & Popol Vuh: A Retelling by Ilan Stavans (illustrations by Gabriela Larios) Listening: One Drop of Kindness by Yungchen Lhamo & La Gran Diversión by Roberto Fonseca Looking: Edward Lear
2023-10-0650 min
AWM Author TalksEpisode 145: The People’s TongueThis week, we have a special episode with live music and lively conversation in celebration of the new one-of-a-kind anthology The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language. With performances and discussion from Ambassador Carolyn Curiel, senior speechwriter and special assistant to President Bill Clinton and former editorial board member of The New York Times; Paquito D’Rivera, renowned Cuban-American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer; Fareed Haque, Pakistani-Chilean-American jazz and classical guitarist and University of Chicago professor; and Ilan Stavans, editor of the The People’s Tongue.
This conversation originally took place May 21, 2023 and was recorded live at the...
2023-05-2958 min
Under the Radar with Callie CrossleyHow American English has borrowed, stolen, and evolved into an imperial languageLanguage is perhaps our most powerful tool. It has been improved, imposed and modified widely over time. From James Baldwin, to the first settlers in the Plymouth Colony, to beat poets, to hip-hop artists, American English in all its forms has become a global, and imperial language.
"Words are never static, they go through changes, and in fact, change is the essential element for any language to thrive," said Ilan Stavans, professor of humanities and Latin American and Latino culture at Amherst College. "We borrow, we steal, that is in American English, from other languages, and also...
2023-04-3030 min
The Fabulous 413The winter languageWe were all about speaking today.
First we spoke to the earth, getting the low-down on winter agriculture with Alice Coleman of Stony Hill Farm in Wilbraham and Phil Korman of CISA.
Then we got into the guts of linguistics and how it evolves with Amherst College professor Ilan Stavans through his new book "The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language." The book features an essay by NEPM host and Merriam-Webster editor-at-large Peter Sokolowski, so we welcomed him into the studio as well.
We're also looking for our next location for Pizza...
2023-03-1549 minOne True PodcastOne True Sentence #26 with Ilan StavansIlan Stavans, publisher of Restless Books and author of numerous works including Quixote and What is American Literature?, shares his one true sentence from Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls.
2023-03-0938 min
The Vocal FriesThe People's TongueSend us a textCarrie and Megan talk to Dr Ilan Stavans about his new book, The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language.Support the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
2023-02-1356 min
Ministry of IdeasMirror Image16th-century glass mirrors and 21st-century camera phones actually share a lot in common; they both are technologies that shaped new forms of the self.Guests
Ian Mortimer, historian and author of Millennium: From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand Years
Ilan Stavans, professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and author of I Love My Selfie
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2023-01-0715 min
New Books in TechnologyMirror Image: New Technologies and the Self16th-century glass mirrors and 21st-century camera phones actually share a lot in common; they both are technologies that shaped new forms of the self.Guests
Ian Mortimer, historian and author of Millennium: From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand Years
Ilan Stavans, professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and author of I Love My Selfie
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2023-01-0715 min
Tales From AztlantisEpisode 35: How old is the word Chicana?How old is the word Chicana? The origin and antiquity of the words “Chicana” and “Chicano” has been debated from the halls of academia to the streets of the barrio. The advent of social media has certainly added fuel to the fire, but nobody seems to have a clear answer. Some claim that the word comes from “chicanery,” and is reflective of the untrustworthy nature of the people it describes. Others claim that it means “children of the earth” in the Nawatl language. However, neither of these claims is supported by evidence. So... just how old is the word...
2022-08-0355 min
DiarioJudio.comJudaísmo Hoy: Primera y última generación de la Idishe | Episodio 49 | Junio 24 2022En este episodio:
Primera y última generación de la Idishe
De mis recuerdos en la Idishe desde segundo de primaria, como lererke hasta la última graduación familiar y cierre de ciclo de la escuela.
Exalumno de la Yavne y de la lererke Maia, Zeji Ozeri gana dos premios Emmy.
El yiddish pasado, presente y futuro
Traducción al yiddish de cuentos de Ilan Stavans recopilados en su libro Desaparición.
Efemérides de la semana:
20 de junio 1965 fallece Bernard M Baruch, financiero, filántropo, asesor de políticos.
22 junio 1965 fallece David O Selznick...
2022-06-251h 02
The History of Literature410 What Is American Literature? (with Ilan Stavans)America, America, America... a continent, a nation, a people, and a whole lotta books. But how does America define itself? Who defines it? Where did the idea of American exceptionalism come from? And how does literature fit into any of this? In this episode, Jacke talks to Professor Ilan Stavans about his new book, What Is American Literature?ILAN STAVANS is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, and the host of the NPR podcast "In Contrast". The recipient of numerous international awards, his work, adapted...
2022-05-2355 min
Reading Through LifeBonus! March 2022 Overflow EpisodeSurprise book nerds! We are back to share what is typically a Patron only episode - our overflow episode that we produce each month. These episodes are the reviews of the other books we read for a month that we didn't get to in our main monthly wrap up. We like to stick with 30ish minutes for our main show episode so any books we didn't get a chance to talk about, they go into these Overflow episodes. Today, we wanted to bring you this fun bonus so that you could get a feel for what the...
2022-04-0825 min
The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's PodcastEpisode: 0324 How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed YiddishThis week "The Shmooze" visited with Ilan Stavans, co-editor of "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish"—a Great Jewish Books Club 2022 selection. In conversation we talk about this momentous and diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America—radical, dangerous, and seductive but also “sweet, generous, and full of life.”
Episode 324
March 27, 2022
Amherst, MA
2022-03-2732 min
Ira's Everything BagelNoshing With Ilan Stavans – October 14, 2021Editor, How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
This week, Ira spoke with Ilan Stavans, editor (along with Josh Lambert) of How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish. In this haimish episode of Ira’s Everything Bagel, Ilan talks about the reasons why, although vulnerable, Yiddish has managed to survive in the world; the role that language played in assimilation in America; why Yiddish is many things, including a museum, a memory, and a language with no fixed address; how it became part of American culture and what has been sacrificed along the way...
2021-10-1425 min
UC Santa Barbara (Audio)The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin AmericaIlan Stavans of Amherst College, discusses The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America (2020). In this travelogue, Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos in Buenos Aires, to “Indian Jews,” and to people affiliated with neo-Nazi groups in Patagonia. He also visits Spain to understand the long-term effects of the Inquisition, the American Southwest habitat of “secret Jews,” and Israel, where immigrants from Latin America have reshaped the Jewish state. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 37322]
2021-08-101h 23
Writers (Video)The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin AmericaIlan Stavans of Amherst College, discusses The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America (2020). In this travelogue, Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos in Buenos Aires, to “Indian Jews,” and to people affiliated with neo-Nazi groups in Patagonia. He also visits Spain to understand the long-term effects of the Inquisition, the American Southwest habitat of “secret Jews,” and Israel, where immigrants from Latin America have reshaped the Jewish state. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 37322]
2021-08-101h 23UC Santa Barbara (Video)The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin AmericaIlan Stavans of Amherst College, discusses The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America (2020). In this travelogue, Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos in Buenos Aires, to “Indian Jews,” and to people affiliated with neo-Nazi groups in Patagonia. He also visits Spain to understand the long-term effects of the Inquisition, the American Southwest habitat of “secret Jews,” and Israel, where immigrants from Latin America have reshaped the Jewish state. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 37322]
2021-08-101h 23Writers (Audio)The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin AmericaIlan Stavans of Amherst College, discusses The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America (2020). In this travelogue, Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos in Buenos Aires, to “Indian Jews,” and to people affiliated with neo-Nazi groups in Patagonia. He also visits Spain to understand the long-term effects of the Inquisition, the American Southwest habitat of “secret Jews,” and Israel, where immigrants from Latin America have reshaped the Jewish state. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 37322]
2021-08-101h 23The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's PodcastEp0302: Jewish Literature: A Very Short IntroductionThe Shmooze speaks with author and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans about his latest book, "Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction". As Ilan explains, “In this volume is modern Jewish literature in the broadest sense. I am interested in the ways it mutates while remaining the same.”
Episode 302
July 14, 2021
Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, Massachusetts
2021-07-1428 min
The ForumOne Hundred Years of Solitude: The story of Latin AmericaConsidered to be one of literature’s supreme achievements, One Hundred Years of Solitude by the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez is reported to be the most popular work of Spanish-language fiction since Don Quixote in the 17th century. Written in 1967, it tells the story of seven generations of the Buendía family, whose patriarch is the founder of a fictional Colombian village called Macondo. But why is it said this novel – which fuses the fantastical and the real – tells the story of Latin America and has given an entire continent its voice? Joining Bridget Kendall a...
2021-04-1539 min
The Student Sums It UpWednesday March, 17, 2021This week, tune into The Student Sums It Up where we discuss what the past year of pandemic has meant for students and the college community, and where we preview what the next year may look like, as vaccination increases offer a glimpse at a future of more covid-freedom. Wrap it up with a re-cap of Ilan Stavans' interview with conservative columnist David Brooks, where they considered questions of faith, partisanship, and the role of institutions of higher education.
2021-03-1715 min
New Books in Jewish StudiesI. Stavans and J. Lambert, "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish" (Restless Books, 2020)Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are explored in this stunning and rich anthology of the interplay of Yiddish and American culture, entitled How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (Restless Books, 2020), and edited by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.It starts with the arrival of Ashkenazi immigrants to New York City’s Lower Eas...
2021-02-2348 min
New Books in FilmI. Stavans and J. Lambert, "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish" (Restless Books, 2020)Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are explored in this stunning and rich anthology of the interplay of Yiddish and American culture, entitled How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (Restless Books, 2020), and edited by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.It starts with the arrival of Ashkenazi immigrants to New York City’s Lower Eas...
2021-02-2345 min
New Books in Performing ArtsI. Stavans and J. Lambert, "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish" (Restless Books, 2020)Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are explored in this stunning and rich anthology of the interplay of Yiddish and American culture, entitled How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (Restless Books, 2020), and edited by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.It starts with the arrival of Ashkenazi immigrants to New York City’s Lower Eas...
2021-02-2346 min
New Books in LanguageI. Stavans and J. Lambert, "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish" (Restless Books, 2020)Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are explored in this stunning and rich anthology of the interplay of Yiddish and American culture, entitled How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (Restless Books, 2020), and edited by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.It starts with the arrival of Ashkenazi immigrants to New York City’s Lower Eas...
2021-02-2348 min
LiterateEpisode 7: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezWe start Season 2 with a boom – the Latin American Boom, that is – by reading Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad / One Hundred Years of Solitude! This book gives a glimpse into an important moment for Latin American literature and world literature. And it does that by telling the story of a single family across several generations. We get to know the members of the Buendía family and follow their lives in the Colombian village of Macondo, until the village and the family both come to an end. Before they do, however, magic intersects with moderniz...
2021-01-281h 02
Chilkoot2020 ലെ വായനാനുഭവങ്ങളുമായി ചിൽകൂട്ടിൽ വി. മുസഫർ അഹമ്മദ് 📚മലയാളത്തിലെ പ്രശസ്ത മാധ്യമപ്രവർത്തകനും, എഴുത്തുകാരനും, സഞ്ചാരിയും അതിലുപരി നല്ലൊരു വായനക്കാരനുമായ ശ്രീ. വി മുസഫർ അഹമ്മദ് രണ്ടായിരത്തി ഇരുപതിൽ അദ്ദേഹത്തെ സ്വാധീനിച്ച 5 നോൺ-ഫിക്ഷൻ പുസ്തകങ്ങളെ ചിൽകൂട്ടിന് പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തുന്നു. താൽപ്പര്യമുള്ളവർക്ക് പോഡ്കാസ്റ്റിൽ പറയുന്ന പുസ്തകങ്ങൾ ഇതെല്ലാമാണ്,
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2021-01-2830 min
Read Learn Live PodcastA Mayan Creation Story – Ep 82 with Ilan StavansPopul Vuh: A Retelling is an inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Mayan myth of creation by acclaimed Latin American author and scholar Ilan Stavans, gorgeously illustrated by Salvadoran folk artist Gabriela Larios and introduced by renowned author, diplomat, and environmental activist Homero Aridjis.The archetypal creation story of Latin America, the Popul Vuh began as a Maya oral tradition millennia ago. In the mid-sixteenth century, as indigenous cultures across the continent were being threatened with destruction by European conquest and Christianity, it was written down in verse by members of the K’iche’ nobility in what...
2020-11-0149 min
2020-11-0149 min
Discover The Most Must-Listen Full Audiobook Today!How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish by Josh Lambert (editor), Ilan Stavans (editor)Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/443877to listen full audiobooks.
Title: How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
Author: Josh Lambert (editor), Ilan Stavans (editor)
Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 15 hours 41 minutes
Release date: August 25, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1
Genres: Language Instruction
Publisher's Summary:
Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are explored...
2020-08-253h 41Download Latest Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Language InstructionHow Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish by Josh Lambert (editor), Ilan Stavans (editor)Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/443877to listen full audiobooks.
Title: How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
Author: Josh Lambert (editor), Ilan Stavans (editor)
Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 15 hours 41 minutes
Release date: August 25, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1
Genres: Language Instruction
Publisher's Summary:
Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are explored...
2020-08-253h 41
Fully Booked by Kirkus ReviewsJordan IfuekoDebut YA novelist Jordan Ifueko joins us to discuss Raybearer (Amulet Books, Aug. 18), “A fresh, phenomenal fantasy that begs readers to revel in its brilliant world” (Kirkus, starred review). Then our editors join with their reading recommendations for the week, including books by Veronica Chambers, Raquel Vasquez-Gilliland, Ilan Stavans, and Margot Livesey.
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2020-08-1847 minThe Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's PodcastEpisode 0267: Ilan Stavans's "The Seventh Heaven"Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling across a dozen countries in Latin America in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date back to Christopher Columbus' arrival, for his latest book, "The Seventh Heaven." Our conversation touches on the book, a recipient of the 2020 Natan Notable Book Award from the Jewish Book Council, as well as Ilan's writing, his ongoing quest to explore the personal and the historical, and the three books that he always has near at hand.
Episode 0267
July 24, 2020
Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, Massachusetts
2020-07-2425 min
This is DemocracyThis is Democracy – Episode 106: Beyond the Wall: Cross-Border CulturesIn this episode of This is Democracy, Jeremi and Zachary talk with Ilan Stavans about our Southern border and how our society, language, and culture are formed at the divide of the United States and Mexico.
Zachary sets the scene with his poem, entitled "Where the River Once Unfurled."
Ilan Stavans is one of today’s preeminent essayists, cultural critics, and translators. He is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture and Five College-Fortieth Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. A native from Mexico, Dr. Stavans received his Doctorate in Latin American Literature from Columbia Un...
2020-07-1600 min
Pop Culture: Comics, TV, FilmProfessors Ilan Stavans & Christopher González On Latinx Pop CultureProfessors Ilan Stavans & Christopher González On Latinx Pop Culture
2020-04-091h 04The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's PodcastEpisode 0243: "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish"Co-editors Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert visit with The Shmooze to talk about their newly released anthology "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish," described by Kirkus Reviews as, "For readers unfamiliar with Yiddish writing, a revelation; for readers and aficionados of the language, a treasure." Ilan and Josh talk about the process of editing this rich anthology that celebrates the interplay of Yiddish and American culture.
Episode 0243
January 16, 2020
Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, Massachusetts
2020-01-1639 min
Una vuelta al mundoIlan Stavans: “El muro de Trump remite a oscuridad, a devaluar la vida”Cada año, miles de latinoamericanos buscan ingresar a EE.UU. por la frontera sur escapando del crimen organizado y el hambre. El escritor y colaborador del New York Times, Ilan Stavans, decidió recorrer la línea que divide a México y de los Estados Unidos. Su experiencia lo llevó a escribir un libro de poesía The Wall. Con él conversó Una Vuelta al Mundo.
También en el programa de esta semana:
* México pidió suspender una subasta de arte prehispánico en París los detalles los trae Radio Francia Internaci...
2019-12-0227 min
Smarty Pants#88: “Making Books Is a Countercultural Act”Restless Books devotes itself to publishing books you don’t usually find in English—from Cuban science fiction and illustrated retellings of the Ramayana to doorstopper Hungarian novels. Its catalog features classics, like Don Quixote and The Souls of Black Folk, new immigrant writing from Abu Dhabi, and the mind-boggling prose of Chilean-French novelist Alejandro Jodorowsky. Only three percent of books published in English are in translation, most from European languages. So what does it take to transform a book from one language to another? To answer that question, Ilan Stavans and Joshua Ellison, co-founders of Restless Books, give us a...
2019-04-2619 min
TK with James Scott: A Writing, Reading, & Books PodcastGrace Talusan & Nathan RostronAt first, she wrote essays as a distraction from her fiction, but over time, Grace Talusan felt the pull of the experiences that would form the foundation of her memoir, THE BODY PAPERS. From immigration to cancer to sexual abuse, the book depicts a life marked by trauma, and yet through it all there is humor, family, and hope. Grace tells James how she embraced her own story, faced honesty, and escaped despair. Plus, Grace's editor and Restless Books marketing director, Nathan Rostron. - Grace Talusan: http://gracetalusan.com/ Buy THE BODY PAPERS: htt...
2019-04-161h 37Una vuelta al mundoCamille Louis: “Para combatir la xenofobia hay que cambiar el discurso”El discurso del odio ha aumentado en el mundo y la descripción del migrante como una amenaza no hace más que alimentarlo. La dramaturga francesa, Camille Louis, planteó en un informe de RFI que el arte es un instrumento para combatir la xenofobia.
También en el programa de Una Vuelta al Mundo de esta semana:
•Cada año, miles de latinoamericanos buscan ingresar a EEUU por la frontera sur escapando del crimen organizado y del hambre. El escritor Ilan Stavans decidió recorrer la línea que divide a México y de los Estados Unidos...
2019-02-0427 minThe Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's PodcastEpisode 0201: "Ilan Stavans and the Film 'My Mexican Shivah'"Ilan Stavans stopped by the studio this week to discuss “My Mexican Shivah,” a film based on one of his stories. An exploration of family tensions, the film is set in Polanco, a Jewish quarter of Mexico City, and documents a man’s death and the celebration of his life that follows. The gentle comedy engages the complexity of Mexican-Jewish identity in the context of death rituals.
Episode 0201
November 14, 2018
Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, Massachusetts
2018-11-1219 minThe Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's PodcastEpisode 0183 "Ilan Stavans on Jewish Children’s Literature"This week we talk with Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American, and Latino Culture at Amherst College, publisher of Restless Books, and host of the NPR podcast “In Contrast.” A busy man, we caught up with him to chat about his upcoming three-part series of talks taking place at the Yiddish Book Center May 1, 8, and 15: “People of the Picture Book: The History of Jewish Children’s Literature.” In a lively exchange, we discuss everything from the Haggadah and the Book of Esther to the ways in which psychoanalysis and the comic-strip industry in the twentieth century informed Jewish children’s...
2018-04-2527 min
Smarty Pants#29: The Three PercentA measly three percent of books published in the United States are works in translation—so this week, we’re shining a spotlight on two books from dramatically different places. Naivo’s Beyond the Rice Fields is the first Malagasy novel ever translated into English; he and his translator, Allison Charette, talk with us about love stories and origin stories. And Tenzin Dickie, editor of Old Demons, New Deities—the first English anthology of Tibetan fiction—joins us on the show to talk about life in exile, the rain in Dharamsala, and the best momos in Queens (Little Tibet, in Jackson Heights, in...
2017-11-1041 min
Skylight Books Podcast SeriesJOEL WHITNEY DISCUSSES HIS NEW BOOK FINKS WITH NICK SCHOUFinks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers (Or Books)
When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, with the reputations of some of America’s best-loved literary figures—including Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, and Richard Wright—tarnished as their work for the intelligence agency has come to light.
Finks is a tale of two CIAs, and how they blurred the line between propaganda and literature. One CIA cr...
2017-04-1040 minThe Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's PodcastEpisode 0112: A New "Haggadah" for a New WorldAuthor and scholar Ilan Stavans talks about his latest book, "The New World Haggadah," a contemporary take that focuses on the Jewish experience from Moses to the Americas, and discusses why a multicultural, multilingual "Haggadah" is so important for today’s seder.
Episode 0112
April 6, 2016
Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, Massachusetts
2016-04-0415 min
The Mash-Up AmericansClickear HereOne in 10 people in the U.S. speaks Spanish at home. What happens when they mash with the rest of America? Una conversacion con Ilan Stavans, Spanglish scholar. ¡Vamos!
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2016-01-1725 min
New Books in Latin American StudiesIlan Stavans and Jorge J. E. Garcia, “Thirteen Ways of Looking At Latino Art” (Duke UP, 2014)As demographic trends continue to mark the so-called “Latinization” of the U.S., pundits across various media outlets struggle to understand the economic, cultural, and political implications of this reality. In popular discourse, Latinoas/os are often referred to as a monolithic group in terms of cultural practices, voting patterns, and consumer preferences. Of course, Latinas/os are one of the most diverse ethnic groups in the U.S., comprising more than 14 nationalities (including indigenous groups) with variances in language, cultural practices, and political attitudes that mirror their geographic distribution. In Thirteen Ways of Looking At Latino Art (Duke Univ...
2015-09-3059 min
New Books in ArtIlan Stavans and Jorge J. E. Garcia, “Thirteen Ways of Looking At Latino Art” (Duke UP, 2014)As demographic trends continue to mark the so-called “Latinization” of the U.S., pundits across various media outlets struggle to understand the economic, cultural, and political implications of this reality. In popular discourse, Latinoas/os are often referred to as a monolithic group in terms of cultural practices, voting patterns, and consumer preferences. Of course, Latinas/os are one of the most diverse ethnic groups in the U.S., comprising more than 14 nationalities (including indigenous groups) with variances in language, cultural practices, and political attitudes that mirror their geographic distribution. In Thirteen Ways of Looking At Latino Art (Duke Univ...
2015-09-3059 min
New Books in Latino StudiesIlan Stavans and Jorge J. E. Garcia, “Thirteen Ways of Looking At Latino Art” (Duke UP, 2014)As demographic trends continue to mark the so-called “Latinization” of the U.S., pundits across various media outlets struggle to understand the economic, cultural, and political implications of this reality. In popular discourse, Latinoas/os are often referred to as a monolithic group in terms of cultural practices, voting patterns, and consumer preferences. Of course, Latinas/os are one of the most diverse ethnic groups in the U.S., comprising more than 14 nationalities (including indigenous groups) with variances in language, cultural practices, and political attitudes that mirror their geographic distribution. In Thirteen Ways of Looking At Latino Art (Duke Univ...
2015-09-301h 00
New England Public Radio PodcastIlan Stavans Interview With Raquel Obregon - TertuliaIlan Stavans Interview With Raquel Obregon - Tertulia by NEPR
2015-09-2336 min
New England Public Radio PodcastIn Contrast with Ilan Stavans - Ep.2In Contrast with Ilan Stavans explores culture in a very broad sense – from the arts and humanities to the individuals that contribute to making western New England a vibrant place. It is a place of discovery and ideas, where diverse perspectives can be explored.
2015-07-2250 min
New England Public Radio PodcastIn Contrast with Ilan Stavans - Ep.1In Contrast with Ilan Stavans explores culture in a very broad sense – from the arts and humanities to the individuals that contribute to making western New England a vibrant place. It is a place of discovery and ideas, where diverse perspectives can be explored.
2015-07-2251 min
latinousaTranswordingHangoutear. Shutupense. Chanks. “Te Llamo Pa’ Tras”
When you grow up bilingual, some colorful linguistic creations end up in your vocabulary. To kick off our “Palabras” episode, the entire Latino USA staff got together to talk about something we called “transwording.” It’s a word we made up about the way we combine bits of English and Spanish in creative ways — inventing the words we often refer to as Spanglish.
We go through listener submissions of their favorite Spanglish words and then, we dive into a conversation about what Spanglish tells us about the Latino experience with essayist and lexicographer Ilan Stavans, auth...
2015-05-0811 min
The Comics AlternativeEpisode 90 - American-Themed Comics, New and Not-So-NewIt’s the week of July 4th, and so on this episode of The Comics Alternative the Two Guys with PhDs pay homage to the stars and stripes…in comics! Yes, that’s right dear patriotic listener: this week Andy and Derek are focusing only on American-themed comics, new as well as not-so-new. They begin by looking at new recent books where the American project stands front and center. First, they discuss Manifest Destiny, Vol. 1: Flora and Fauna, by Chris Dingess, Matthew Roberts, and Owen Gieni (Image Comics). Both of the guys are bowled over by this first collection and se...
2014-07-0200 min
New Books in Latin American StudiesIlan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin, “El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel” (Basic Books, 2012)Are you looking for a good Hanukkah gift? A good Christmas gift? Heck, any gift? Or maybe you just want to read a terrific book? Well I’ve got just the ticket: Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin‘s, El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel (Basic Books, 2012). Stavans and Scheinkin team up to perform a minor miracle: they not only tell the story of hispanic crypto-Jews (conversos, marranos) in the Old and New Worlds, but they do it in the most entertaining, compelling way possible–with a great, moving, thought-provoking, and often funny (yes, funny) mystery. This is how popular history should...
2012-12-1458 min
New Books in Biblical StudiesIlan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin, “El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel” (Basic Books, 2012)Are you looking for a good Hanukkah gift? A good Christmas gift? Heck, any gift? Or maybe you just want to read a terrific book? Well I’ve got just the ticket: Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin‘s, El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel (Basic Books, 2012). Stavans and Scheinkin team up to perform a minor miracle: they not only tell the story of hispanic crypto-Jews (conversos, marranos) in the Old and New Worlds, but they do it in the most entertaining, compelling way possible–with a great, moving, thought-provoking, and often funny (yes, funny) mystery. This is how popular history should...
2012-12-1458 min
New Books in Iberian StudiesIlan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin, “El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel” (Basic Books, 2012)Are you looking for a good Hanukkah gift? A good Christmas gift? Heck, any gift? Or maybe you just want to read a terrific book? Well I’ve got just the ticket: Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin‘s, El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel (Basic Books, 2012). Stavans and Scheinkin team up to perform a minor miracle: they not only tell the story of hispanic crypto-Jews (conversos, marranos) in the Old and New Worlds, but they do it in the most entertaining, compelling way possible–with a great, moving, thought-provoking, and often funny (yes, funny) mystery. This is how popular history should...
2012-12-1458 min
The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's PodcastEpisode 0043: Ilan Stavans in ConversationAuthor, culture commentator, and scholar Ilan Stavans speaks with Josh Lambert about a program originally planned for November 2012. Yiddish con Salsa, a weekend program at the Yiddish Book Center has been scheduled for April 19-21, 2013.
For more information and to register, visit www.yiddishbookcenter.org/yiddish-con-salsa.
Episode 0043
September 25, 2012
Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, Massachusetts
2012-09-2214 min
The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's PodcastEpisode 0019: Writer Ilan Stavans Discusses His Fotonovela Once@9:53amIlan Stavans sits down with Josh Lambert to answer questions about the concept behind his documentary-style fotonovela, Once@9:53am, a fictional meditation of the two hours before the 1994 terrorist attack on the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. Once@9:53am, a collaboration between Ilan Stavans and photographer Marcelo Brodsky, is on exhibit at the Yiddish Book Center through October 2012.
Episode 0019
April 18, 2012
Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, Massachusetts
2012-04-1728 minYiddish Book Center AudioEpisode 0019: Writer Ilan Stavans Discusses His Fotonovela Once@9:53amIlan Stavans sits down with Josh Lambert to answer questions about the concept behind his documentary-style fotonovela, Once@9:53am, a fictional meditation of the two hours before the 1994 terrorist attack on the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. Once@9:53am, a collaboration between Ilan Stavans and photographer Marcelo Brodsky, is on exhibit at the Yiddish Book Center through October 2012.
Episode 0019
April 18, 2012
Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, Massachusetts
2012-04-1728 min
Healing Through Creativity Archives - WebTalkRadio.netHealing Through Creativity – Solving My Midlife CrisisStories shape the way we see ourselves. They can influence how we act too. Many a ‘good marriage’, ‘successful career’ and ‘comfortable life’ has been torn to shreds by that old and familiar cultural story, affectionately known as ‘the Midlife Crisis’. In this week’s Healing Through Creativity show, host Dr. Desiree Cox talks to one of today preeminent essayists, cultural critics, and translators, Professor Ilan Stavans. Professor Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture and Five College-Fortieth Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. Stavans shares how he spun this ‘the middle-age crisis’ tale into a creative opportunity...
2012-04-1632 minAudio | Work in ProgressJorge Luis Borges: Borges and IThis newly translated piece by Jorge Luis Borges appears in The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry. Ilan Stavans, the book’s editor and the translator of “Borges and I,”...
The post Jorge Luis Borges: Borges and I first appeared on Work in Progress.
2011-05-1700 min
Maria Hinojosa: One-on-OneSkip Gates and Ilan Stavans - Latino and African-American RelationsHenry Louis Gates Jr., editor of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, and Ilan Stavans, editor of the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, talk about the parallels between the Latino and African American experiences, and between Latino and African American literature. They also address their hopes for the future, including a broader discourse on literature produced by people of color, and a time when Latinos and African Americans can embrace their shared pasts and common future.Visit our FACEBOOK gallery.
2011-04-1600 min
SpanishpodcastEl Quijote en SpanglishIn our 109th episode we will review the first chapter of Cervantes best novel: Don Quijote de La Mancha, in the classic version. In the second part of the episode wi will read the same chapter I of El Quijote but from Ilán Stavans Spanglish translation.
Our episode lasts a little more than usual but we thought it was worth to get both versions in a mp3 podcast and to enjoy the classic version and to know (and enjoy it to, why not?) Spanglish translation. Now it is a good chance to have both.
En n...
2009-11-0700 min
Voices on AntisemitismIlan StavansIlan Stavans has long thought of himself as an outsider, first as a Jew growing up in Mexico and now as a Mexican living in America.
2008-05-0800 min
Voices on AntisemitismIlan Stavans, Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst CollegeIlan Stavans has long thought of himself as an outsider, first as a Jew growing up in Mexico and now as a Mexican living in America.
2008-05-0808 min
Conversations with Ilan Stavans PodcastConversations with Ilan Stavans: Pedro NogueraIlan Stavans talks to Pedro Noguera, one of the USA's foremost authorities on education, about the nation's failing schools. Produced by La
Plaza for WGBH Educational Foundation
2006-04-1306 minConversations with Ilan Stavans PodcastConversations with Ilan Stavans: Gregory RabassaIlan Stavans talks to translator Gregory Rabassa who has translated more than three dozen books from Spanish and Portuguese into English,
including works by Nobel laureates. Produced by La Plaza for WGBH Educational Foundation
2006-04-1304 minConversations with Ilan Stavans PodcastConversations with Ilan Stavans: Maria HinojosaIlan Stavans talks to Maria Hinojosa, senior correspondent for the PBS series NOW, anchor and managing editor of NPR's Latino USA. Produced
by La Plaza for WGBH Educational Foundation
2006-04-1304 minConversations with Ilan Stavans PodcastConversations with Ilan Stavans: Lila DownsIlan Stavans talks to Mexican singing sensation Lila Downs who burst on to the music scene with her stunning performance of a song from the
film "Frida" at the 75th annual Academy Awards in 2003. Produced by La Plaza for WGBH Educational Foundation
2006-04-1309 minConversations with Ilan Stavans PodcastConversations with Ilan Stavans: Julian ZugazagoitiaIlan Stavans talks to Julian Zugazagoitia, the director of El Museo del Barrio, New York's leading Latino museum.Produced by La Plaza for
WGBH Educational Foundation
2006-04-1304 minConversations with Ilan Stavans PodcastConversations with Ilan Stavans: Hector TobarIlan Stavans talks to author and journalist Hector Tobar about language, identity, and ethnicity among Latinos in the US.Produced by La
Plaza for WGBH Educational Foundation
2006-04-1304 minConversations with Ilan Stavans PodcastConversations with Ilan Stavans: Melinda LopezIlan Stavans talks to actress and playwright Melinda L+pez whose work explores the complexeties of the Cuban diaspora. Her latest play,
"Sonia Flew" centers around a young girl who is put on a plane bound for the US soon after Fidel Castro rises to power. Produced by La Plaza for WGBH
Educational Foundation
2006-04-1306 minConversations with Ilan Stavans PodcastConversations with Ilan Stavans: America FerreraConversation with Honduran American actress America Ferrera. Ferrera caught the attention of critics and fans alike with her portrayal of
Ana, the curvaceous young Mexican American girl in the 2002 film "Real Women Have Curves." Ferrera talks with host Ilan Stavans about the pressures and
demands of show business life.Produced by La Plaza for WGBH Educational Foundation
2006-04-1305 minConversations with Ilan Stavans PodcastConversations with Ilan Stavans: Julia AlvarezDominican American author Julia Alvarez discusses her book, "In the Time of the Butterflies," a story about the legendary Mirabal sisters,
who fought and died for liberty under the brutal Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.Produced by La Plaza for WGBH Educational
Foundation
2006-04-1305 minConversations with Ilan Stavans PodcastConversations with Ilan Stavans: Luis Alberto UrreaMexican American author Luis Alberto Urrea discusses his book, "The Devil's Highway: A True Story," the tragic story of a group of Mexican
migrants who risked walking across the Arizona desert for a chance to enter the US--14 of them died.Produced by La Plaza for WGBH Educational
Foundation
2006-04-1309 minConversations with Ilan Stavans PodcastConversations with Ilan Stavans: Rolando Hinojosa-SmithIlan Stavans talks to author Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, perhaps best known for Klail City Death Trip series, a collection of short novels.
Produced by La Plaza for WGBH Educational Foundation
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