Agosín, Marjorie (editor). Taking Root: Narratives of Jewish Women in Latin America . Ohio University , Research in International Studies, Latin America Series 38. 2002. ISBN 0-89680-226-4. Keeping the essence of an original identity, whilst at the same time integrating into a new society is the challenge facing those who migrate. The maintenance of Jewish identity in a new-found land is a common theme in the narratives and testimonies which constitute this book. They are written by women from across Latin America . Agosín, herself a poet and professor of Spanish, has assembled twenty-two fascinating accounts of what might be called 'encounters' of Jewish women and their families with Latin American culture. They have a relevance to all striving to 'take root' in foreign soil. Of particula