Pomegranate seeds : Latin American Jewish tales / Nadia Grosser Nagarajan ; introduction by Ilan Stán Stavans

"This is the first collection of the oral tradition of Latin American Jews to be presented in English. These thirty-four tales span the 500 years of Jewish presence in Latin America and the Caribbean. The folktales and cultural oral narratives were often based on actual events, recorded not only from the Ashkenazi perspective but from the Sephardic and Oriental as well."--Jacket.