ABSTRACT
Rosa Nissán is the author of two related novels, Like a Bride (1992) and Like a Mother (1996), which chronicle the life of Oshinica, a Sephardic Jew in Mexico in the late twentieth century. (The novels appeared in English in a single volume in 2002.) Nissán is the first modern Sephardic author to use large amounts of Ladino—Judeo-Spanish—in her fiction. Nissán has also written stories and a travel book about Israel. In 1993 the Costa Rican director Guita Schyfter made a successful film adaptation of Like a Bride. The following chapter of the novel is entitled "Moshón's Bar Mitzvah."
