Creator Bio
Isaac Goldemberg
b. 1945
Peruvian-born Isaac Goldemberg, a poet, playwright, and novelist, teaches at Maria de Hostos Community College of the City University of New York. He has served as director of the Latin American Writers Institute and as editor of the Hostos Review. His writings explore the role of the outsider in the search for identity, as well as themes of alterity, dislocation, and diaspora.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Jews in Hell
The fable tells us
that the Jews bought for themselves
a private place in hell.
In the first circle,
seated on a wooden bench,
Karl Marx fans himself with his hand.
The prophet Jeremiah
fights off…
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The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner
But what does Padre Dávalos know about what I feel for Jacobo? I wasn’t going to go and listen to him speak against the Jews. He hates the Jews because Marcos paid no attention whatever to him. When…