This book examines a group of multicultural Jewish poets to address the issue of multilingualism within a context of minor languages and literatures, nationalism, and diaspora. It introduces three writers working in minor or threatened languages who challenge the usual consensus of Jewish literature: Algerian Sadia Levy, Israeli Margalit Matitiahu, and Argentine Juan Gelman. Each of them--Levy in French and Hebrew, Matitiahu in Hebrew and Ladino, and Gelman in Spanish and Ladino--expresses a hybrid or composite Sephardic identity through a strategic choice of competing languages and...