Pomegranate Seeds: Latin American Jewish Tales by Nadia Grosser Nagarajan New Year leaving him to survive on

leaving him to survive on his own in a changing world while the tailor Shimen-Elye buys a she-goat which mysteriously changes gender each time its new owner stops at the inn between Kozodoyevka

sometimes painful

a resilient and courageous immigrant in New York

and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution

The little-known story of Leonard Cohen’s concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War

Pomegranate Seeds: Latin American Jewish Tales by Nadia Grosser Nagarajan New Year leaving him to survive onPomegranate Seeds is the first collection of the oral tradition of Latin American Jews to be presented in English. These thirty four tales span the 500 years of Jewish presence in Latin America and the Caribbean. The folktales and cultural oral narratives were often based on actual events, recorded not only from the Ashkenazi perspective but from the Sephardic and Oriental as well. Like dispersed pomegranate seeds, all the stories come from a common