The Traffic of Women and the Jewish Subworld in the Romance Maaseh Betabaat [A Table of a Ring], by Ilan Sheinfeld

Authors

  • Gabriel Steinberg Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-8051.cllh.2016.125033

Keywords:

Jewish Literature, Latin America, Argentina, Zwi Migdal.

Abstract

In the novel A tale of a ring, Ilan Sheinfeld traces the trajectory of two families over three generations who are united by the destiny of a ring with magical powers, and they move from the city of Danzig to Buenos Aires, a city to which thousands of Jews immigrated in the late nineteenth century, in search of new economic opportunities. Among them, came also those who, determined to thrive by exploiting prostitution, sent hundreds of women who became sex slaves. In this novel, Esperanza Gants reveals to her daughter a dark and terrible secret: that she, her mother and her grandmother were Jewish prostitutes.

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Author Biography

  • Gabriel Steinberg, Universidade de São Paulo
    Professor de Língua Hebraica na Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo.

Published

2016-12-26

Issue

Section

HEBREW AND JEWISH LITERATURE

How to Cite

Steinberg, G. (2016). The Traffic of Women and the Jewish Subworld in the Romance Maaseh Betabaat [A Table of a Ring], by Ilan Sheinfeld. Cadernos De Língua E Literatura Hebraica, 14, 94-113. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-8051.cllh.2016.125033