{"product_id":"the-seventh-heaven-ilan-stavans-9780822966319","title":"The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America","description":"Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from 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's arrival. In the tradition of V.S. Naipaul's explorations of India, the Caribbean, and the Arab World, he came back with an extraordinarily vivid travelogue. Stavans talks to families of the \u003ci\u003edesaparecidos\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Along the way, he looks for the proverbial \"seventh heaven,\" which, according to the Talmud, out of proximity with the divine, the meaning of life in general, and Jewish life in particular, becomes clearer. \u003ci\u003eThe Seventh Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful work in Stavans's ongoing quest to find a convergence between the personal and the historical.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ilan Stavans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082296631X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822966319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Ilan Stavans","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995258781951,"sku":"9780822966319","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_00c67eb0-d14e-4b1d-98bc-2acc8ae32397.jpg?v=1683334780","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-seventh-heaven-ilan-stavans-9780822966319","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}