American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.

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• Ilan Stavans:

  My hope is that 'The New World Haggadah' will open a new world for readers who will see our heritag

• Ilan Stavans:

  'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

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  The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation

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  Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted

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  I have always considered it a beautiful metaphor that Cervantes had no fixed address in Spain. He i

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  Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it h

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  The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speakin

• Ilan Stavans:

  I am an immigrant from Mexico. I came to the United States looking for a landscape where I could ex

• Ilan Stavans:

  In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming America

• Ilan Stavans:

  At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not