Isaac GoldembergBorn in Peru, in 1945, Isaac Goldemberg is a renowned poet, playwright, and fiction writer. He has lived in New York since 1964 and is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Eugenio Mar¡a de Hostos Community College of the City University of New Yok, where he is also the Director of the Latin American Writers Institute and the Editor of Hostos Review, an international journal of culture. He is the author of three novels, two of which have been published in English to great acclaim. His ground breaking novel The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner, already in its 7th English edition, was described in the New York Times Book Review as a moving exploration of the human condition and in 2001 was selected by a panel of international scholars convened by the National Yiddish Book Center as one of the 100 greatest Jewish books of the last 150 years. He is also the author of a collection of short fiction, eleven books of poems, and three plays. His work has been translated into several languages, reviewed in dozens of journals, and published in numerous journals and anthologies in Latin America, Europe and the United States. In 1998 the University of Puerto Rico Press published his The Grand Book of Jewish Latin America, a 1250-page anthology of Jewish Latin American writings, which includes the work of 140 writers. Read More Read Less