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"Varon interweaves recollections of growing up in Vietnam-era Denver with stories of her gambler father, son of Sephardic Jewish immigrants, and offers an introduction to Sephardic culture contrasted with Ashkenazic culture, examines the forging of identity within the potentially destructive Am...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Varon, Jodi, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2006.
Temas:
Varon, Jodi, > 1953- > Family.
Varon, Jodi, > 1953- > Childhood and youth.
Varon, Jodi, > 1953-
Jews > Colorado > Denver > Social life and customs.
Sephardim > Colorado > Social life and customs.
Ashkenazim > Colorado > Social life and customs.
Juifs > Colorado > Denver > Mœurs et coutumes.
Séfarades > Colorado > Mœurs et coutumes.
Ashkénazes > Colorado > Mœurs et coutumes.
HISTORY > State & Local.
Childhood and youth of a person.
Ashkenazim > Social life and customs.
Families.
Jews > Social life and customs.
Sephardim > Social life and customs.
Colorado.
Colorado > Denver.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bennie--Benji--Benjamin
  • The tongue's delight
  • When quizzac was cherry
  • Rubes in New York
  • In the vale
  • The second ace
  • Levitation
  • Paella and yellow cabs
  • Ben-anna split
  • Spinoza's trade
  • I'd give my life for a drink of raki
  • Doppelgangers, daughters
  • In amsterdam
  • Along the route of the caliphate
  • The man in the porkpie hat.

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