| Golemito Contributor(s): Stavans, Ilan (Author), Villegas, Teresa (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1588382923 ISBN-13: 9781588382924 Publisher: NewSouth Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2013 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Legends, Myths, Fables - General - Juvenile Fiction | Religious - Jewish |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2013008349 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 9.1" W x 8.3" (0.65 lbs) 32 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Originally published in the children's magazine Cricket, Golemito is the story of how a couple of Jewish boys in Mexico City confront bullying by creating a Golem, the mythical creature of Jewish folklore, originally made by Rabbi Lowe, known as the Maharal of Prague, in the sixteenth century, to defend the city's Jewish community from anti-Semitic attacks. Sammy Nurko, along with the story's narrator, conjures an Aztec version of the Golem that is minute in size and responds to enchanting Nahuatl poetry. Written by internationally renowned, prize-winning author Ilan Stavans and illustrated by Teresa Villegas, Golemito is both an endearing tale of courage and redemption and an enthralling fusion of the Jewish and Latino traditions. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stavans, Ilan: - Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include The Hispanic Condition (1995), On Borrowed Words (2001), Spanglish (2003), Love and Language (2007), and Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years (2010). He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (1998), The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (2003), the 3-volume set of Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories (2004), Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing (2009), The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2010), and The FSG Books of 20th-Century Latin American Poetry (2011). His forthcoming titles are, as translator, Juan Rulfo's The Plain in Flames (Texas, 2012) and Pablo Neruda's All the Odes (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012), and, as author, Return to Centro Histórico: A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots (Rutgers, 2012), the graphic novel El Iluminado (Basic, 2012, with Steve Sheinkin), as well as a biography of Isaac Bashevis Singer (Princeton) and a biography of the novel Don Quixote (W.W. Norton).Villegas, Teresa: - Teresa Villegas is a visual artist whose works have exhibited and toured in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Mexico. Her work has been commissioned by the state of Arizona for public art. Her award winning graphic designs and illustrations have been published widely in editorial magazines, newspapers, art books, trade books, and children's books. |