Drawing to an inside straight the legacy of an absent father /

"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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Main Author: Varon, Jodi, 1953-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2006.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.