Talk with Professor Ilan Stavans

Salem State World Languages and Cultures Professor Michele C. Dávila Gonçalves will join Ilan Stavans, the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, to discuss his work and travels. From “crypto-Jews” forced into exile by the Spanish Inquisition to Jewish gauchos in Argentina to the Ashkenazi who found refuge from the Holocaust in Latin America, Stavans’s work sheds light on the multifaceted Jewish communities in the region.

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language, The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America, and How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish. Translated into 20 languages, his work has been adapted into film, TV, radio, and theater.

This event is free and open to the public. It will be held in person in the Petrowski Room at Marsh Hall and livestreamed on Zoom. Register for the zoom webinar.

This event is cosponsored by the World Languages and Cultures Department at Salem State University, JCC of the North Shore, CJP, and the Cummings Foundation.